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

Takeshi Ogura | Zendy; Kazuo Hara | Zendy; Susumu Hijioka | Zendy; Nobumasa Mizuno | Zendy; Hiroshi Imaoka | Zendy; Yasumasa Niwa | Zendy; Masahiro Tajika | Zendy; Shinya Kondo | Zendy; Tsutomu Tanaka | Zendy; Yasuhiro Shimizu | Zendy; Waki Hosoda | Zendy; Yasushi Yatabe | Zendy; Vikram Bhatia | Zendy; Kazuhide Higuchi | Zendy; Kenji Yamao | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Takeshi Ogura,

Kazuo Hara,

Susumu Hijioka,

Nobumasa Mizuno,

Hiroshi Imaoka,

Yasumasa Niwa,

Masahiro Tajika,

Shinya Kondo,

Tsutomu Tanaka,

Yasuhiro Shimizu,

Waki Hosoda,

Yasushi Yatabe,

Vikram Bhatia,

Kazuhide Higuchi,

Kenji Yamao

Publication year - 2012

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 - 10.7178/eus.02.006

Subject(s) - medicine , ampulla of vater , endoscopic ultrasound , major duodenal papilla , endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography , radiology , duodenoscopy , malignancy , biopsy , ampulla , fine needle aspiration , carcinoma , endoscopy , pancreatitis , pathology , surgery

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.

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