Endoscopic ultrasound advances, part 1: Diagnosis

摘要: Initially developed in the 1980s, interest EUS has increased past decade. Introduced primarily as a diagnostic modality, it enabled endosonographer to visualize details of anatomy and pathology not previously attainable by most gastroenterologists or radiologists. The list indications for is growing, which forced ‘think outside lumen’. The introduction linear echoendoscopes facilitated FNA enabling trace path needle tip during puncture process. techniques have allowed tissue fluid sampling purposes. common are summarized Table 1. TABLE 1 Diagnostic endoscopic ultrasound EUS may be foremost minds therapeutic tool. However, combined ability image layers bowel wall adjacent structures, sample these FNA, resulted powerful modality that can influence clinical decision making. A previous review this Journal (5) discussed more EUS. present article discusses some recent advances role