BACKGROUND & AIMS: Endosonography-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA)
permits cytological confirmation of EUS findings. A multicenter prospective evaluation of …

Early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer remains a difficult task, and multiple imaging tests
have been proposed over the years. The aim of this review is to describe the current role of …

… -staging group underwent thoracotomy (P=0.004). Among these thoracotomies, 21 in the
PET–CT group and 38 in the conventional-staging group were futile (P=0.05). The number of …

… Vilmann and Hancke reported the development of a new biopsy handle instrument (type
Hancke/Vilmann) in 1996.[ 20 ] A year later, Binmoeller et al.[ 21 ] first described an automated …

… P Vilmann2, … Vilmann P , Hancke S. A new biopsy handle instrument for endoscopic
ultrasound … Wiersema MJ, Vilmann P, Giovannini M, et al. Endosonography guided fine needle …

Diagnosis of indeterminate mediastinal masses and staging of lung cancer poses a
significant challenge. Options for tissue diagnoses include computed tomography (CT)-guided …

AIM: To evaluate the ability of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) elastography to distinguish
benign from malignant pancreatic masses and lymph nodes. METHODS: A multicenter study …

Results: A total of 119 lesions were sampled by EUS-FNA (n= 59) and EBUS-TBNA (n= 60).
EUS-FNA and EBUS-TBNA demonstrated cancer in 26 and 28 lesions, respectively, and …

… The sensitivity for mediastinal lymph node metastasis was 79 % for surgical staging
versus 94 % for endosonography followed by surgical staging (P = 0.04), with corresponding …

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) can
sample enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …