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Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration of Malignant Pancreatic Lesions

DOI

235

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0

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1997

Year

Manoop S. Bhutani, Robert H. Hawes, Paul L. Baron, Angela Sanders-Cliette, Annette Van Velse, J. F. Osborne, Brenda J. Hoffman
Endoscopy

Abstract

EUS with FNA is useful for detection of malignancy in a pancreatic mass. The procedure appears to have a complication rate of 2%. Impact of this technique on clinical management of patients needs further evaluation.