An international, multi-institution survey of the use of EUS in the diagnosis of pancreatic cystic lesions

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Currently, pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) are recognized with increasing frequency and have become a more common finding in clinical practice. EUS is challenging in the diagnosis of PCLs and evidence-based decisions are lacking in its application. This study aimed to dev...

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Autores principales: Ge, Nan, Brugge, William R., Saxena, Payal, Sahai, Anand, Adler, Douglas G., Giovannini, Marc, Pausawasdi, Nonthalee, Santo, Erwin, Mishra, Girish, Tam, William, Kida, Mitsuhiro, de la Mora-Levy, Jose G., Sharma, Malay, Umar, Muhammad, Katanuma, Akio, Lee, Linda, Garg, Pramod Kumar, Eloubeidi, Mohamad Ali, Yu, Ho Khek, Raijman, Isaac, Arturo Arias, Brenda Lucia, Bhutani, Manoop, Carrara, Silvia, Rai, Praveer, Mukai, Shuntaro, Palazzo, Laurent, Dietrich, Christoph F., Nguyen, Nam Q., El-Nady, Mohamed, Poley, Jan Werner, Guaraldi, Simone, Kalaitzakis, Evangelos, Sabbagh, Luis Carlos, Lariño-Noia, Jose, Gress, Frank G., Lee, Yuk-tong, Rana, Surinder S., Fusaroli, Pietro, Hocke, Michael, Dhir, Vinay, Lakhtakia, Sundeep, Ratanachu-ek, Thawee, Chalapathi Rao, A. S., Vilmann, Peter, Okasha, Hussein Hassan, Irisawa, Atsushi, Ponnudurai, Ryan, Leong, Ang Tiing, Artifon, Everson, Iglesias-Garcia, Julio, Saftoiu, Adrian, Larghi, Alberto, Robles-Medranda, Carlos, Sun, Siyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6927137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31552915
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/eus.eus_61_19
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Sumario:BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Currently, pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) are recognized with increasing frequency and have become a more common finding in clinical practice. EUS is challenging in the diagnosis of PCLs and evidence-based decisions are lacking in its application. This study aimed to develop strong recommendations for the use of EUS in the diagnosis of PCLs, based on the experience of experts in the field. METHODS: A survey regarding the practice of EUS in the evaluation of PCLs was drafted by the committee member of the International Society of EUS Task Force (ISEUS-TF). It was disseminated to experts of EUS who were also members of the ISEUS-TF. In some cases, percentage agreement with some statements was calculated; in others, the options with the greatest numbers of responses were summarized. RESULTS: Fifteen questions were extracted and disseminated among 60 experts for the survey. Fifty-three experts completed the survey within the specified time frame. The average volume of EUS cases at the experts' institutions is 988.5 cases per year. CONCLUSION: Despite the limitations of EUS alone in the morphologic diagnosis of PCLs, the results of the survey indicate that EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration is widely expected to become a more valuable method.

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