Endoscopic ultrasound and paracentesis in the evaluation of small volume ascites in patients with intra-abdominal malignancies

Table 1 Findings from endoscopic ultrasound guided paracentesis in patients found to have small volume ascites without known intra-abdominal malignancy n (%)

Ref.	Number patients	Benign	Malignant	Comment
Allah et al[11]	100	36 (58)	26 (42)	Some patients unable to obtain sufficient sample for cytology. Tuberculosis most common benign etiology
Rana et al[12]	12	2 (17)	10 (83)	Peritoneal nodules. Tuberculosis most common benign etiology
Wardeh et al[10]	101	74 (73)	27 (27)	Twenty-one adenocarcinoma, 1 metastatic small-cell carcinoma of the lung, 1 large-cell lymphoma, 3 adenocarcinoma, 1 plasmacytoma