Sa1453 A PROSPECTIVE MULTICENTER STUDY OF EUS-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY USING A 22-GAUGE FRANSEEN NEEDLE FOR PANCREATIC SOLID LESIONS

Recently, a three-plane symmetric needle with Franseen geometry (Acquire, Boston Scientific Japan) was developed for EUS-guided fine-needle biopsy (EUS-FNB). While encouraging data of a 22-gauge Franseen needle have been reported, a large scale data of per pass and quantitative analyses are still lacking. This was a multicenter prospective study at 14 Japanese tertiary care centers. Patients who underwent EUS-FNB of a pancreatic solid lesion...