How to prepare, handle, read, and improve EUS-FNA and fine-needle biopsy for solid pancreatic lesions: The pathologist's role

Katharina Biermann¹, María Dolores Lozano Escario², Shantel Hébert-Magee³, Guido Rindi⁴, Claudio Doglioni⁵

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¹ Department of Pathology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Pathology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
³ Department of Pathology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
⁴ Department of Anatomic Pathology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Pathology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

PMID: 29387701
PMCID: PMC5774084
DOI: 10.4103/eus.eus_71_17

How to prepare, handle, read, and improve EUS-FNA and fine-needle biopsy for solid pancreatic lesions: The pathologist's role

Katharina Biermann et al. Endosc Ultrasound. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;6(Suppl 3):S95-S98.

doi: 10.4103/eus.eus_71_17.

Authors

Katharina Biermann¹, María Dolores Lozano Escario², Shantel Hébert-Magee³, Guido Rindi⁴, Claudio Doglioni⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Pathology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
³ Department of Pathology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
⁴ Department of Anatomic Pathology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Pathology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

PMID: 29387701
PMCID: PMC5774084
DOI: 10.4103/eus.eus_71_17

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**Figure 1**
Proposed algorithm for tissue processing of endoscopic ultrasound aspirations. FNA: Fine needle aspiration

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Example of endoscopic ultrasound-fine-needle aspiration (a) with subsequent smear, (b) thin preparation, and (c) cellblock preparation (H and E) staining, (d) Immunohistochemical staining

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