Endoscopic ultrasound role in pancreatic adenocarcinoma treatment: A review focusing on technical success, safety and efficacy

Table 4 Summary of efficacy and safety of endoscopic ultrasound-guided angio-therapy procedures

Procedure	Intra-tumoral injection therapies	Ablation therapies	Fiducial markers placement, brachytherapy and celiac plexus neurolysis
Technical success	High	High	High
Safety (complications)	Uncertain1	Minor	Minor
Efficacy
Survival	Modest	None	None
Palliation	Not reported	Encouraging	High
Mortality	None	None	None

¹The two studies that had the highest adverse events rate did not state whether they were in the endoscopic ultrasound or in the percutaneous group. See Table 1.