Agreement on endoscopic ultrasonography-guided tissue specimens: Comparing a 20-G fine-needle biopsy to a 25-G fine-needle aspiration needle among academic and non-academic pathologists.
Priscilla A van RietDjuna L CahenKatharina BiermannBettina HansenAlberto LarghiGuido RindiGiovanni FellegaraPaolo ArcidiaconoClaudio DoglioniNicola Liberta DecarliJulio Iglesias-GarciaIhab AbdulkaderHector Lazare IglesiasMasayuki KitanoTakaaki ChikugoSatoru YasukawaHans van der ValkNam Quoc NguyenAndrew RuszkiewiczMarc GiovanniniFlora PoizatSchalk van der MerweTania RoskamsErwin SantoSilvia MarmorKenneth ChangFritz LinJames FarrellMarie RobertJuan Carlos BucoboAlan HeimannFrancisco Baldaque-SilvaCarlos Fernández MoroMarco J BrunoPublished in: Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (2019)
This study shows that the 20-G FNB outperforms the 25-G FNA needle in terms of diagnostic agreement, independent of the background and experience of the pathologist. This endorses use of the 20-G FNB needle in both expert and lower volume EUS centers.