Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common gastrointestinal disease and the leading cause of
hospital admission and healthcare burden among gastrointestinal disorders in many …

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) can be treated with surgery, chemotherapy, and
radiotherapy. Despite medical progress in each field in recent years, it is still insufficient for …

Physicians have used palpation as a diagnostic examination to understand the elastic
properties of pathology for a long time since they realized that tissue stiffness is closely …

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is an essential technique for the management of several
diseases. Over the years, new technologies have been developed to improve and overcome …

Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (PanNENs) are relatively rare, but their incidence
has increased significantly in the last decades. Precise diagnosis and prognostic …

Background and aims Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) elastography (EUS‐EG) is a minimally
invasive diagnostic method for evaluating tissue elasticity. The aim of this study was to …

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 …

We recently introduced a series of papers “What should be known prior to performing EUS
exams.” In Part I, the authors discussed which clinical information and whether other …

This is the fifth in a series of papers entitled “Controversies in EUS.” In the current paper, we
deal with high-resolution catheter probes, otherwise known as EUS miniprobes (EUS-MPs) …

Background: Recent advances in EUS techniques (real-time EUS elastography and contrast-
enhanced EUS) have allowed a better characterization of focal pancreatic masses. Mean …