Background Over 20 years have passed since the development of endoscopic
ultrasonography (EUS), and this technique is now widely used for the diagnosis of digestive …

Materials and Methods: A total of 108 patients (78 women and 30 men; average age, 50
years) who were confirmed pathologically to have PCNs were analyzed retrospectively. We …

BACKGROUND: Preoperative diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions remains challenging
despite advancement in imaging technologies. EUS has the benefit of being a minimally …

Differential diagnosis of focal pancreatic masses is based on endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)
guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA/FNB). Several imaging techniques (ie gray …

BACKGROUND: EUS elastography is a newly developed imaging procedure that
characterizes the differences of hardness and strain between diseased and normal tissue …

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is currently well established as a diagnostic method for
the evaluation of pancreatic mass lesions. Diagnostic EUS might be divided into two broad …

We performed a meta-analysis of published data to investigate the diagnostic value of
artificial intelligence for pancreatic cancer. Systematic research was conducted in the …

Since its introduction to clinical practice in the 1980s, EUS has been progressively used to
stage and diagnose pancreaticobiliary and GI benign and malignant disorders. Comparison …

EUS-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) by fine needle aspiration (FNA)(EUS-FNA) and fine-
needle biopsy (EUSFNB) have become integral to the diagnosis and staging of GI and other …

Early detection of pancreatic cancer has long eluded clinicians because of its insidious
nature and onset. Often metastatic or locally invasive when symptomatic, most patients are …