predictors of malignancy and recommended follow-up for patients with negative endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration of suspected pancreatic lesions
;Bret J Spier;Eric A Johnson;Deepak V Gopal;Terrence Frick;Michael M Einstein;Siobhan Byrne;Rebecca L Koscik;Jinn-Ing Liou;Terri Broxmeyer;Suzanne M Selvaggi;Patrick R Pfau
indian journal of pharmacology2009Vol. 23pp. 279-286
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) with fine-needle aspiration (FNA) can characterize and diagnose pancreatic lesions as malignant, but cannot definitively rule out the presence of malignancy. Outcome data regarding the length of follow-up in patients with negative or nondiagnostic EUS-FNA of pancreatic lesions are not well-established.