Interventional procedures being developed for therapeutic use of EUS include EUS-guided drainage/ anastomosis, and EUS-guided fine needle injection. EUS-guided drainage is applied for pancreatic ...

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has become the most accurate imaging modality for locoregional cancer staging of the gastrointestinal tract. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) has added a new level of accuracy ...

For initial anatomic staging, EUS results have consistently shown more than 80% accuracy compared with surgical pathology for depth of tumor invasion (T). Accuracy increased with higher stage, and was ...

Background A 72-year-old white male presented to a University Digestive Disease Center with epigastric pain and weight loss. A CT scan suggested that the patient had a mass in his pancreas and he was ...

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is the combination of endoscopy and intraluminal ultrasonography. This allows use of a high frequency transducer, which, due to the short distance to the target lesion ...