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ArticleClinical endoscopy2021

Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fiducial Placement for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Pancreatic Malignancy.

Seong-Hun Kim, Eun Ji Shin

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Article in Clinical endoscopy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Endoscopic Management of Pancreatobiliary Malignancies.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2022
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  8. Hot topics in therapeutic EUS.Endoscopic ultrasound
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Seong-Hun KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Jeonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute of Jeonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, Korea.
Eun Ji ShinDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Jeonbuk National University Hospital · KRJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is an important treatment option for pancreatic cancer, which is known to be one of the malignancies with the worst prognosis. However, the high radiation doses delivered during SBRT may cause damage to adjacent radiosensitive organs. To minimize such damage, fiducial markers are used for localization during SBRT for pancreatic cancer. The development of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has enabled fiducial markers to be inserted into the pancreas using an EUS fine-needle aspiration (FNA) needle, unlike in the past when percutaneous placement was generally performed. For successful EUS-guided fiducial marker placement, it is necessary for the fiducial markers to be loaded within the EUS-FNA needles to have a low probability of complications and a low migration risk, and to be stably observed in SBRT imaging. A systematic review has shown that the technical success rate of EUS-guided fiducial marker placement is 96.27%, whereas the fiducial marker migration and adverse event rates are 4.33% and 4.85%, respectively. Nonetheless, standardized techniques for fiducial marker placement and the characteristics of optimal fiducial markers have not yet been established. This review will introduce the characteristics (e.g., materials and shapes) of fiducial markers used in fiducial marker placement for pancreatic cancer and will discuss conventional techniques along with their success rates, difficulties, and adverse events.

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Endoscopic ultrasonographyFiducial markerPancreatic cancerStereotactic body radiotherapyTechnique

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PMID34082487
PMCPMC8182253
OpenAlexW3165538059

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