Non-negligible rate of needle tract seeding after endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic cancer.
Kei YaneMasaki KuwataniMakoto YoshidaTakuma GotoRyusuke MatsumotoHideyuki IharaToshinori OkudaYoko TayaNobuyuki EhiraTaiki KudoTakeya AdachiKazunori EtoManabu OnoderaItsuki SanoMasanori NojimaAkio KatanumaPublished in: Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (2020)
Although preoperative EUS-FNA for pancreatic body and tail cancer has no negative effect on RFS or OS, needle tract seeding after EUS-FNA was observed to have a non-negligible rate. (UMIN000030719).