Needle tract seeding after endoscopic ultrasound-guided pancreatic biopsy: Moving beyond anecdotal evidence

Marcin Polkowski^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Clinical Oncology, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
² Department of Oncological Gastroenterology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.

Editorial

Marcin Polkowski. Dig Endosc. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;34(7):1456-1458.

doi: 10.1111/den.14441. Epub 2022 Oct 11.

Marcin Polkowski^{1

2}

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Clinical Oncology, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
² Department of Oncological Gastroenterology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.

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