Accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) of solid pancreatic tumours

EUS is one of the most important tools in the staging of pancreatic tumours and with the linear-array instruments FNA can be performed if malignancy is suspected. We prospectively investigated the diagnostic accuracy of the EUS FNA in our series. Patients and methods: 28 patients were referred to our department between Sept. 2009. and Febr. 2011. with the suspicion of locally advanced pancreatic tumour (26 with pancreatic head and 2 with body) on the abdominal US and CT scan with or without ERCP. Our goal was the EUS staging and the cytological verification of malignancy. 8 pts had negative brush cytology during…