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SUBMITTER: Kobara H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7556007 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 20200912 9
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) has emerged as a standard and convenient method for the sampling of subepithelial lesions (SELs). Immunohistological analysis is required to definitively distinguish mesenchymal tumors; however, EUS-FNA provides insufficient material to achieve this, especially for small SELs < 2 cm. We therefore previously reported a novel submucosal tunneling biopsy (STB) technique that utilizes endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for sampling ...[more]