Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a procedure that allows a doctor to obtain images and information about the digestive tract and the surrounding tissue and organs, including the lungs. Ultrasound ...

Pancreatic cancer can be difficult to detect. Symptoms often don’t show until later stages, and there aren’t standard screening tests for this type of cancer. Abdominal and endoscopic ultrasounds are ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;21(2):348-357. It is likely that trucut biopsies will have an important role in diagnosing submucosal lesions such as gastrointestinal stromal tumor as it is difficult to ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – July 8, 2010 – A new study has found that endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is associated with improved outcomes in patients with localized pancreatic cancer, possibly due to the detection ...

A 40-year-old male patient with confirmed symptomatic insulinoma of the pancreas was referred for an endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)–guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of the lesion. In August 2019, the ...

A therapeutic endoscopic procedure provides treatment that is carried out via the endoscope. A procedure, which starts as a diagnostic or screening endoscopy, may become a therapeutic endoscopy ...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) is currently performed on a routine basis at many endoscopic centers and it is evident that this procedure has a major impact on ...

Researchers report that endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) are 99.1 percent accurate in diagnosing pancreatic neoplasms (abnormal growths or ...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – October 21, 2013 – Researchers report that in patients with pseudocysts with viscous debris-laden fluid, endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage by using a combination of a ...