Radiology

Suction

Lesion

Engineering

Surgery

Ultrasound

Stylet

Biopsy

Endoscope

Endoscopic ultrasound

Medicine

Mechanical engineering

The Korean journal of pancreas & biliary tract

The endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a device with an ultrasound probe on the tip of endoscope. We can observe the surrounding structures outside the alimentary tract by using EUS. It is also possible to get a tissue from the pancreatic lesion for histopathologic diagnosis by using EUS. The development of devices and techniques of EUS guided tissue acquisitions made it the choice of non-operative pathologic test for pancreatic diseases. This paper describes the clinical applications of this procedure in pancreatic lesions from the recent European and Korean guidelines, including how to choose the needle, role of rapid on site evaluation, usage of stylet, suction and fanning technique, how to process acquired specimen, procedure-related complications and educations of this method.

Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration and Biopsy for Pancreatic Disease