Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy coupled with<i>KRAS</i>mutation assay to distinguish pancreatic cancer from pseudotumoral chronic pancreatitis - Concepedia

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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy coupled with<i>KRAS</i>mutation assay to distinguish pancreatic cancer from pseudotumoral chronic pancreatitis

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2009

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Barbara Bournet, Anny Souque, Pierre Sénesse, Eric Assénat, Marc Barthet, Nathalie Lesavre, Alain Aubert, Dermot O’Toole, Pascal Hammel, Pierre Lévy,

Abstract

Although the value of KRAS analysis in addition to EUS-FNAB is limited for distinguishing pancreatic mass lesions, when chronic pancreatitis presented as a pseudotumor a negative finding (wild-type KRAS), was useful in strongly suggesting a benign lesion.