Abstract
Endoscopic sonography (EUS) is an important imaging modality for evaluating benign and malignant luminal gastrointestinal-tract abnormalities. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of catheter-based EUS (C-EUS) during standard upper and lower endoscopy in patients with malignancies and other abnormalities of the gastrointestinal-tract lumen, to assess the image quality obtained with the 12.5-MHz catheter-based ultrasound transducer, and to prospectively compare the interpretations of C-EUS images with those of the standard EUS (S-EUS) images. One hundred thirty-seven consecutive patients referred for EUS were evaluated with C-EUS followed by S-EUS. The patients were assigned to 1 of 2 groups: group A, patients with intramural masses or intestinal wall thickening, with biopsies negative for malignancy; and group B, patients with esophageal, gastric, duodenal, or rectal cancer referred for staging. The results of C-EUS and S-EUS were compared for each group. C-EUS was completed in 134 patients: 81 patients with 83 lesions in group A and 53 patients in group B. For group A, C-EUS image interpretation concurred with that of S-EUS in 74 (89%) of 83 lesions. For group B, C-EUS concurred with S-EUS for tumor de...Continue Reading
References
Sep 1, 1992·Radiology·J B LiuC L Millward
May 1, 1991·Gut·K AkahoshiH Nawata
Jan 1, 1990·Endoscopy·T Rösch, M Classen
Apr 1, 1989·Gastroenterology·F E SilversteinA Proctor
Jan 1, 1986·Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. Supplement·C B Lamers
Jan 1, 1986·Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. Supplement·T L Tio, G N Tytgat
Jun 1, 1995·Gastrointestinal Endoscopy·M YoshidaS Okamura
Apr 1, 1994·Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine : Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine·A A AlexanderB B Goldberg
Sep 1, 1994·Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine : Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine·A ItohT Hayakawa
Sep 1, 1994·Gastrointestinal Endoscopy·S MarutaT Hayakawa
Nov 1, 1993·Endoscopy·T FurukawaT Katoh
Oct 1, 1996·Gastrointestinal Endoscopy·N HasegawaT Hayakawa
Mar 1, 1997·Gastrointestinal Endoscopy·A ChakM V Sivak
Oct 9, 1998·Endoscopy·Y MurataH Ide
Oct 9, 1998·Endoscopy·S TsudaT Yao
Feb 27, 1999·Gastrointestinal Endoscopy·J MenzelW Domschke
Jun 22, 1999·Endoscopy·J MenzelW Domschke
Citations
Nov 24, 2004·Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America·Marcin Polkowski, Eugeniusz Butruk
Jun 29, 2004·World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG·Guo-Qiang XuQing Gu
Jun 3, 2017·Diseases of the Esophagus : Official Journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus·H J AhnG J Cheon