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22-gauge core vs 22-gauge aspiration needle for endoscopic ultrasound-guided sampling of abdominal masses
William Sterlacci, Athanasios D Sioulas, Lothar Veits, Pervin Gönüllü, Guido Schachschal, Stefan Groth, Mario Anders, Christos K Kontos, Theodoros Topalidis, Andrea Hinsch, Michael Vieth, Thomas Rösch, Ulrike W Denzer
William Sterlacci, Lothar Veits, Michael Vieth, Institute of Pathology, Clinic of Bayreuth, 95445 Bayreuth, Germany
Athanasios D Sioulas, Pervin Gönüllü, Guido Schachschal, Stefan Groth, Mario Anders, Thomas Rösch, Ulrike W Denzer, Department of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
Christos K Kontos, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Athens, 15701 Athens, Greece
Theodoros Topalidis, Institute of Pathology, 30539 Hannover, Germany
Andrea Hinsch, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
Author contributions: Denzer UW conceived the idea and designed the study, performed the endoscopies, collected the data, reviewed the draft, and approved the final manuscript; Sioulas AD performed the literature search and drafted and approved the final manuscript; Sterlacci W, Veits L, Topalidis T, Hinsch A and Vieth M performed the cytohistological analyses of the specimens, reviewed the draft, and approved the final manuscript; Kontos CK analyzed the data, reviewed the draft, and approved the final manuscript; Schachschal G, Groth S and Anders M performed the endoscopies, reviewed the draft, and approved the final manuscript; Rösch T critically reviewed the draft, and approved the final manuscript; all the authors contributed to this manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (study number: PV 3835).
Clinical trial registration statement: The study has been registered at Clinicaltrials.gov (ID: NCT02181140).
Informed consent statement: All of the individuals who participated in the study provided their written informed consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None to declare.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Athanasios D Sioulas, MD, PhD, Department of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
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Received: June 25, 2016
Peer-review started: June 27, 2016
First decision: August 8, 2016
Revised: August 21, 2016
Accepted: September 14, 2016
Article in press: September 14, 2016
Published online: October 21, 2016
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