Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasonography: Intratumoral Injection for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasonography: Intratumoral Injection for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is an aggressive disease that has poor outcomes despite maximal traditional therapies. Thus, treatment of this cancer demands innovative strategies to be used in addition to standing therapies in order to provide new avenues of care. Here, we describe the technique of using endoscopic ultrasound in order to directly inject both novel and conventional therapies into pan...

Therapeutic endoscopic ultrasonography in pancreatic malignancy. Is the ERCP passè?

Endoscopic biliary stenting is the most common method of treating obstructive jaundice. But, in about 3-12% of cases, selective cannulation of the major papilla fails and surgery or percutaneous biliary drainage is required. But, percutaneous drainage requires dilated intrahepatic biliary ducts, and the rate of complications reaches 20%. including cases of peritoneal bleeding. A new technique o...

Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasonography

1 Department of Surgery, University of Sao Paulo, Rua Guimaraes Passos 260, Vila Mariana, 04107-030 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Department, Paoli-Calmettes Institute, 232 Boulevard Sainte Marguerite, 13273 Marseille Cedex 9, France 3 Endoscopy Center, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, 36 Sanhao Street, Shenyang, China 4 Endoscopy Unit, Gastroenterology D...

Contrast-Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasonography for Pancreatic Tumors

OBJECTIVES To investigate the usefulness of contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasonography (CE-EUS) for histological differentiation of pancreatic tumors. METHODS CE-EUS was performed for consecutive patients having a pancreatic solid lesion, and tumors were classified into three vascular patterns (hypervascular, isovascular, and hypovascular) at two time phases (early-phase and late-phase). Co...

Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic adenocarcinoma