Endoscopic ultrasound-through-the-needle biopsy in pancreatic cystic lesions: A large single center experience
Rintaro Hashimoto, John G Lee, Kenneth J Chang, Nabil El Hage Chehade, Jason B Samarasena
Rintaro Hashimoto, John G Lee, Kenneth J Chang, Nabil El Hage Chehade, Jason B Samarasena, H. H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, United States
Author contributions: All authors helped to perform the research; Hashimoto R manuscript writing, performing procedures and data analysis; Lee JG and Chang KJ performing procedures; El Hage Chegade N manuscript writing; Samarasena JB contribution to performing procedures and drafting conception.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of University of California Irvine Medical Center.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No financial support was received from the company of microforceps to conduct this study. Dr Samarasena is a consultant to US Endoscopy. None of the other authors have any relevant conflicts of interest.
Data sharing statement: No data is shared.
STROBE statement: All the statement is checked.
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/
Corresponding author: Rintaro Hashimoto, MD, PhD, Doctor, H. H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, 333 City Blvd West, Suite 400, Orange, CA 92868, United States.
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Received: March 18, 2019
Peer-review started: March 18, 2019
First decision: May 9, 2019
Revised: September 25, 2019
Accepted: October 18, 2019
Article in press: October 18, 2019
Published online: November 16, 2019
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