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Touch imprint cytology on endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle biopsy provides comparable sample quality and diagnostic yield to standard endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration specimens in the evaluation of solid pancreatic lesions.
Stefano Francesco Crinò
1 ,
Alberto Larghi
2 ,
Laura Bernardoni
1 ,
Alice Parisi
3 ,
Luca Frulloni
1 ,
Armando Gabbrielli
1 ,
Pietro Parcesepe
3 ,
Aldo Scarpa
3
,
4 ,
Erminia Manfrin
3
March 2019
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Abstract
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions (SPLs). Cytological samples can also be obtained using touch imprint cytology (TIC) on EUS fine-needle biopsy (FNB) specimens. We aimed to compare sample quality and diagnostic yield of EUS-FNA-standard cytology (EUS-FNA-SC) to that of EUS-FNB-TIC in a series of patients with SPLs.