ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2017
Maximizing the endosonography: The role of contrast harmonics, elastography and confocal endomicroscopy.
Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04389892 (Usefulness of Contrast-enhanced Harmonic Endoscopic Ultrasound), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Usefulness of Contrast-enhanced Harmonic Endoscopic Ultrasound (CH-EUS) for the Differentiation of the Pancreatic Cysts and for Guiding Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration (EUS-FNA) From Murale Nodules.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound in Cardiology: Clinical Applications and Future Perspectives, a New Era of Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Intervention.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Clinical value of endoscopic ultrasound sound speed in differential diagnosis of pancreatic solid lesion and prognosis of pancreatic cancer.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- Diagnostic Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatology: Focus on Normal Variants and Pancreatic Masses.Visceral medicine · 2023Review
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- Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma to Pancreas: Case Series and Review of the Literature.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Clinical Utility of the Contrast-Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration in the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cyst.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Diagnostic Endoscopic Ultrasound: Technique, Current Status and Future Directions.Gut and liver · 2018Review
- The endoscopist and malignant and non-malignant biliary obstruction.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2018Review
- Diagnostic classification of endosonography for differentiating colorectal ulcerative diseases: A new statistical method.World journal of gastroenterology · 2017Article
- Elastography and Contrast-Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasound Findings in a Pseudo-Solid Variant of a Pancreatic Serous Cystadenoma.GE Portuguese journal of gastroenterology · 2017Article
- EUS liver assessment using contrast agents and elastography.Endoscopic ultrasoundReview
- Definitive Role of Contrast-enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) in the Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Non-diagnostic Cross-sectional Imaging: A Case Report.Journal of clinical and experimental hepatologyArticle
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Abstract
New technologies in endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) evaluation have been developed because of the need to improve the EUS and EUS-fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) diagnostic rate. This paper reviews the principle, indications, main literature results, limitations and future expectations for each of the methods presented. Contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS uses a low mechanical index and highlights slow-flow vascularization. This technique is useful for differentiating solid and cystic pancreatic lesions and assessing biliary neoplasms, submucosal neoplasms and lymph nodes. It is also useful for the discrimination of pancreatic masses based on their qualitative patterns; however, the quantitative assessment needs to be improved. The detection of small solid lesions is better, and the EUS-FNA guidance needs further research. The differentiation of cystic lesions of the pancreas and the identification of the associated malignancy features represent the main indications. Elastography is used to assess tissue hardness based on the measurement of elasticity. Despite its low negative predictive value, elastography might rule out the diagnosis of malignancy for pancreatic masses. Needle confocal laser endomicroscopy offers useful information about cystic lesions of the pancreas and is still under evaluation for use with solid pancreatic lesions of lymph nodes.
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