A "Back Light System" for Identification of Sites for Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration in Solid Pancreatic Masses: A Prospective, Randomized Study with a Crossover Design

• Main Authors: Ryo Harada (Author), Hironari Kato (Author), Soichiro Fushimi (Author), Hirofumi Inoue (Author), Daisuke Uchida (Author), Yutaka Akimoto (Author), Takeshi Tomoda (Author), Kazuyuki Matsumoto (Author), Yasuhiro Noma (Author), Naoki Yamamoto (Author), Shigeru Horiguchi (Author), Koichiro Tsutsumi (Author), Hiroyuki Okada (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background/Aims We applied a back light system (BLS) with a magnifying glass to improve the ability to assess the adequacy of specimen sampling using endosonography. We conducted this study to evaluate the efficacy of the BLS in sampling of specimens by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspir...