SynthesisDigestive diseases and sciences2016
Meta-Analysis for Cyto-Pathological Outcomes in Endoscopic Ultrasonography-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration With and Without the Stylet.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- [Clinical and Technical Guideline for Endoscopic Ultrasound-guided Tissue Acquisition of Pancreatic Solid Tumor: Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy].The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi · 2021Guideline
- Clinical and Technical Guideline for Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)-Guided Tissue Acquisition of Pancreatic Solid Tumor: Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (KSGE).Gut and liver · 2021Guideline
- A prospective randomized trial of EUS-guided tissue acquisition using a 25-gauge core biopsy needle with and without a stylet.Surgical endoscopy · 2018Trial
- Explainable Machine Learning for Detecting Pancreatic Cancer from Structured Endoscopic Ultrasound Data: A Retrospective Multicenter Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Biopsy with Stylet and Suction Versus No Stylet No Suction for the Diagnosis of Pancreatic and Non-Pancreatic Lesions.International journal of general medicine · 2025Article
- Methods to increase the diagnostic efficiency of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for solid pancreatic lesions: An updated review.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2024Review
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- Clinical and Technical Guideline for Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)-Guided Tissue Acquisition of Pancreatic Solid Tumor: Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (KSGE).Clinical endoscopy · 2021Review
- Present and Future of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Tissue Acquisition in Solid Pancreatic Tumors.Clinical endoscopy · 2019Article
- Endoscopic ultrasound-guided sampling of solid pancreatic masses: the fine needle aspiration or fine needle biopsy dilemma. Is the best needle yet to come?World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2019Review
- Endoscopic ultrasonography in pancreatic diseases: advances in tissue acquisition.Endoscopy international open · 2019Review
- Recent advancement in EUS-guided fine needle sampling.Journal of gastroenterology · 2019Review
- How to measure quality in endoscopic ultrasound.Annals of translational medicine · 2018Review
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- Present status and perspectives of endosonography 2017 in gastroenterology.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2018Review
- Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration of pancreatic lesions with 22 versus 25 Gauge needles: A meta-analysis.United European gastroenterology journal · 2017Article
- EUS tissue acquisition: From A to B.Endoscopic ultrasoundReview
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Abstract
backgroundTheoretically, use of the stylet during endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) will prevent the tip of the needle from being blocked and the sample from being contaminated, improving the quality and diagnostic yield of specimens.
aimThis meta-analysis aimed to evaluate any benefit from the use of a stylet during EUS-FNA.
methodsMEDLINE, EMBASE, WEB of SCIENCE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were searched for articles published through October 2015. A fixed-effects model was used to calculate the pooled effects when there is no heterogeneity and a random-effects model was used in situations with significant heterogeneity.
resultsFive prospective randomized controlled studies and two retrospective studies of a total of 5491 specimens (2504 specimens in the S+ group and 2987 specimens in the S- group) were included in this study. The pooled analysis demonstrated no significant differences in the adequate sample rate between the S+ group (2135/2504, 85.26 %) and S- group (2609/2987, 87.35 %) [odds ratio 0.94 (95 % confidence interval 0.79-1.11), p = 0.45]. Furthermore, the rate of cellularity > 50 %, the contamination rate, and the blood contamination rate were not significantly superior in the S+ group when compared with the S- group.
conclusionsWhether the use of a stylet improves the proportion of adequate specimens or quality of the specimen is questionable. Our results suggest that the use of a stylet dose not guarantee any advantage during EUS-guided tissue sampling.
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