1. Agreement on endoscopic ultrasonography-guided tissue specimens: Comparing a 20-G fine-needle biopsy to a 25-G fine-needle aspiration needle among academic and non-academic pathologists
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Priscilla A. Riet, Djuna L. Cahen, Katharina Biermann, Bettina Hansen, Alberto Larghi, Guido Rindi, Giovanni Fellegara, Paolo Arcidiacono, Claudio Doglioni, Nicola Liberta Decarli, Julio Iglesias‐Garcia, Ihab Abdulkader, Hector Lazare Iglesias, Masayuki Kitano, Takaaki Chikugo, Satoru Yasukawa, Hans Valk, Nam Quoc Nguyen, Andrew Ruszkiewicz, Marc Giovannini, Flora Poizat, Schalk Merwe, Tania Roskams, Erwin Santo, Silvia Marmor, Kenneth Chang, Fritz Lin, James Farrell, Marie Robert, Juan Carlos Bucobo, Alan Heimann, Francisco Baldaque‐Silva, Carlos Fernández Moro, Marco J. Bruno, Fabia Attili, Harry Aslanian, Adebowale Adeniran, John G. Lee, Mariachiara Petrone, Erwan Bories, Erez Scapa, Jonathan M. Buscaglia, Maoxin Wu, van Riet, Pa, Cahen, Dl, Biermann, K, Hansen, B, Larghi, A, Rindi, G, Fellegara, G, Arcidiacono, P. G., Doglioni, C, Liberta Decarli, N, Iglesias-Garcia, J, Abdulkader, I, Lazare Iglesias, H, Kitano, M, Chikugo, T, Yasukawa, S, van der Valk, H, Nguyen, Nq, Ruszkiewicz, A, Giovannini, M, Poizat, F, van der Merwe, S, Roskams, T, Santo, E, Marmor, S, Chang, K, Lin, F, Farrell, J, Robert, M, Bucobo, Jc, Heimann, A, Baldaque-Silva, F, Fernández Moro, C, Bruno, Mj., Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Urology, and Surgery
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medicine.medical_specialty ,MULTICENTER ,Endoscopic ultrasonography ,Endosonography ,Fine needle biopsy ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,GASTROENTEROLOGY EUROPEAN-SOCIETY ,Randomized controlled trial ,PRECISION MEDICINE ,law ,Biopsy ,medicine ,Humans ,DIAGNOSTIC-ACCURACY ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration ,Pancreas ,ULTRASOUND ,METAANALYSIS ,Science & Technology ,LESIONS ,Gastroenterology & Hepatology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Gastroenterology ,Liver, Biliary tract and Pancreas ,Reproducibility of Results ,CORE BIOPSY ,Pancreatic Neoplasms ,Pathologists ,Sample quality ,Fine-needle aspiration ,ROC Curve ,FNA ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,FNB ,22-GAUGE ASPIRATION ,Original Article ,Surgery ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,pathology ,Clinical Competence ,Radiology ,interobserver agreement ,ORIGINAL ARTICLES ,business ,Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIM: A recently carried out randomized controlled trial showed the benefit of a novel 20-G fine-needle biopsy (FNB) over a 25-G fine-needle aspiration (FNA) needle. The current study evaluated the reproducibility of these findings among expert academic and non-academic pathologists. METHODS: This study was a side-study of the ASPRO (ASpiration versus PROcore) study. Five centers retrieved 74 (59%) consecutive FNB and 51 (41%) FNA samples from the ASPRO study according to randomization; 64 (51%) pancreatic and 61 (49%) lymph node specimens. Samples were re-reviewed by five expert academic and five non-academic pathologists and rated in terms of sample quality and diagnosis. Ratings were compared between needles, expert academic and non-academic pathologists, target lesions, and cytology versus histological specimens. RESULTS: Besides a higher diagnostic accuracy, FNB also provided for a better agreement on diagnosing malignancy (ĸ = 0.59 vs ĸ = 0.76, P
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- 2019