Open AccessEUS-FNA using 22G nitinol or ProCore needles without on-site cytopathology
Author(s) -
Charing ChingNing Chong,
Anthony Yuen Bun Teoh,
Raymond Tang,
Anthony W.H. Chan,
Enders Kwok Wai Ng,
Paul Bo San Lai
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
endoscopic ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.883
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2303-9027
pISSN - 2226-7190
DOI - 10.4103/eus.eus_113_17
Subject(s) - medicine , cytopathology , fine needle aspiration , diagnostic accuracy , nuclear medicine , radiology , sampling (signal processing) , cytology , bevel , predictive value , biopsy , pathology , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision , structural engineering , engineering
The project is aimed to compare the tissue sampling rate and the diagnostic accuracy rate of EUS-FNA using 22G nitinol and reverse bevel-tipped needles.