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Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Random Omental Fine Needle Aspiration: A Novel Technique for the Diagnosis of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Diagnostic abdominal paracentesis has been described in literature to have variable sensitivity of 50%–75% for the detection of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). We believe that random needle aspirates from the omentum, even in the absence of obvious deposits by endoscopic ultrasound...

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Autores principales: Siddappa, Pradeep Kumar, Jain, Neha, Agarwal, Naveen K., Jain, Monika, Lamba, Gurwant Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7548158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33027585
http://dx.doi.org/10.5946/ce.2019.175