Open AccessIn vivo and ex vivo confocal endomicroscopy of pancreatic cystic lesions: A prospective study
Author(s) -
Somashekar G. Krishna,
Rohan M. Modi,
Amrit K. Kamboj,
Benjamin Swanson,
Phil A. Hart,
Mary Dillhoff,
Andrei Manilchuk,
Carl Schmidt,
Darwin L. Conwell
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v23.i18.3338
Subject(s) - ex vivo , histopathology , medicine , pathology , in vivo , pancreas , radiology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
To investigate the reproducibility of the in vivo endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) - guided needle based confocal endomicroscopy (nCLE) image patterns in an ex vivo setting and compare these to surgical histopathology for characterizing pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs).