Can Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Offer Clinical Benefit for Tumors of the Ampulla of Vater? -An Initial Study

OBJECTIVE: No previous studies have described endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) only for intra-ampullary lesions of the papilla of Vater. We aimed to examine whether EUS-FNA can be used to diagnose such lesions. METHODS: This study included a subset of 10 consecutive pati...

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Main Authors: Ogura, Takeshi, Hara, Kazuo, Hijioka, Susumu, Mizuno, Nobumasa, Imaoka, Hiroshi, Niwa, Yasumasa, Tajika, Masahiro, Kondo, Shinya, Tanaka, Tsutomu, Shimizu, Yasuhiro, Hosoda, Waki, Yatabe, Yasushi, Bhatia, Vikram, Higuchi, Kazuhide, Yamao, Kenji
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062218/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24949343
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7178/eus.02.006
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