How should needle tract seeding be addressed in endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration?

Hirofumi Kogure¹, Yousuke Nakai^{2

3}, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Endoscopy and Endoscopic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Editorial

Hirofumi Kogure et al. Dig Endosc. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul;34(5):958-959.

doi: 10.1111/den.14340. Epub 2022 May 29.

Hirofumi Kogure¹, Yousuke Nakai^{2

3}, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro³

¹ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Endoscopy and Endoscopic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

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Clinical dilemma of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration for resectable pancreatic body and tail cancer.
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