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Diagnostic efficacy of smear plus liquid-based cytology for EUS-FNA of solid pancreatic lesions: A propensity-matched study.
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- Combined Liquid-Based Cytology and Conventional Smear Provides Better Sensitivity and Adequacy Rates After Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Tissue Acquisition of Abdominal Masses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Pancreatic cancer in liquid-based cytology: cytological features and cell block utility from 254 fine-needle aspiration samples.Journal of pathology and translational medicine · 2025Article
- Updated techniques and evidence for endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition from solid pancreatic lesions.DEN open · 2025Review
- Role of Liquid-Based Cytology in the Endoscopic Diagnosis of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Tissue processing of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration specimens from solid pancreatic lesions.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2024Review
- Evaluation of the diagnostic efficacy of liquid-based cytology obtained via percutaneous ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for pancreatic masses: a large tertiary center's 8-year experience.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Article
- Diagnostic yield of liquid-based cytology in serial pancreatic juice aspiration cytological examination.DEN open · 2023Article
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- The usefulness of liquid-based cytology for endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition of solid pancreatic masses.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Comparison of smear cytology with liquid-based cytology in pancreatic lesions: A systematic review and meta-analysis.World journal of clinical cases · 2021Article
- A case of rectal metastasis of ovarian carcinoma diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration: A case report and brief review of the literature (with videos).Clinical case reports · 2021Article
- Diagnostic efficacy of different pathologic methods for assessing tissue obtained by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: a prospective study.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2021Article
- Diagnostic value of liquid-based cytology and smear cytology in pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: A meta-analysis.World journal of clinical cases · 2020Article
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Abstract
Liquid-based cytology (LBC) is a thin-layer slide preparation procedure that was developed to overcome the cell crowding and contamination associated with smear cytology (SC). The present study compared diagnostic efficacy between SC alone and SC combined with LBC (SLBC) using endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) samples of pancreatic lesions.We retrospectively analyzed data derived from 311 consecutive patients. Specimens obtained via EUS-FNA from 179 patients between December 2011 and May 2016 were analyzed by SC, and those obtained from 132 patients between June 2016 and October 2017 were analyzed by SLBC. The 2 groups were compared in terms of adequate sample rate, diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity using propensity score matching.SC and SLBC were compared using propensity score-matching in 204 patients (n = 102 per group). The adequate sample rate did not differ significantly between SLBC (100%) and SC (99.0%, P = 1). Diagnostic sensitivity, negative predictive value and accuracy were better for SLBC than for SC in terms of cytological (93.2% vs 67.4%, 68.4% vs 23.1%, and 94.1% vs 69.6%, P < .01 each, respectively) and cytohistological (95.5% vs 81.5%, 76.5% vs 34.6%, and 96.1% vs 82.4%, P < .01, P = .02, and P < .01, respectively) analyses.SLBC improves the diagnostic efficacy of EUS-FNA for pancreatic lesions compared to LBC.
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