Fine-needle tissue acquisition from subepithelial lesions using a forward-viewing linear echoendoscope

Larghi, Alberto
Rindi, Guido (ORCID:0000-0003-2996-4404)
Larocca, Luigi Maria (ORCID:0000-0003-1739-4758)
Costamagna, Guido (ORCID:0000-0002-8100-2731)
Ricci, Riccardo (ORCID:0000-0002-9089-5084)

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Publication date

January 2014

DOI

10.1055/s-0033-1344895

ISSN

0013-726X

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Abstract

The overall diagnostic accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for subepithelial lesions (SELs) is suboptimal. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy, defined as the proportion of correct diagnoses, obtained using the EUS-guided fine-needle tissue acquisition (FNTA) sampling technique performed with the newly developed forward-viewing EUS scope (FV-EUS)