Endoscopic UltrasoundPub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1097/eus.0000000000000075
Victor Lira de Oliveira, Marcos Eduardo Lera Dos Santos, Mateus Bond Boghossian, João Remí de Freitas Júnior, Maria Luíza Lemos Pires Pereira, Carolina Vaz Turiani, Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de Moura
{"title":"Double EUS-guided bypass for gastric outlet and biliary tract malignant obstruction: A standardized one-step approach (with videos).","authors":"Victor Lira de Oliveira, Marcos Eduardo Lera Dos Santos, Mateus Bond Boghossian, João Remí de Freitas Júnior, Maria Luíza Lemos Pires Pereira, Carolina Vaz Turiani, Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de Moura","doi":"10.1097/eus.0000000000000075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/eus.0000000000000075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11577,"journal":{"name":"Endoscopic Ultrasound","volume":"13 4","pages":"271-272"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11419474/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of EUS in the diagnosis of early chronic pancreatitis.","authors":"Yaya Bai, Xianzheng Qin, Xiang Ao, Taojing Ran, Chunhua Zhou, Duowu Zou","doi":"10.1097/eus.0000000000000077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/eus.0000000000000077","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The diagnosis of early chronic pancreatitis (ECP) is challenging due to the lack of standardized diagnostic criteria. EUS has been considered a sensitive diagnostic modality for chronic pancreatitis (CP), with advancements in technique such as EUS-guided fine needle aspiration and biopsy (EUS-FNA/FNB) being developed. However, their role in the diagnosis of ECP remains unelucidated. This review thereby aimed to provide an overview of the clinical landscape of EUS in the field of ECP.</p>","PeriodicalId":11577,"journal":{"name":"Endoscopic Ultrasound","volume":"13 4","pages":"232-238"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11419561/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Endoscopic UltrasoundPub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1097/eus.0000000000000068
Zhenming Zhang, Yao Luo, Min Shi, Shengping Li, Yu Bao
{"title":"EUS-FNA to diagnose a submucosal oropharyngeal carcinoma.","authors":"Zhenming Zhang, Yao Luo, Min Shi, Shengping Li, Yu Bao","doi":"10.1097/eus.0000000000000068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/eus.0000000000000068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11577,"journal":{"name":"Endoscopic Ultrasound","volume":"13 4","pages":"273-275"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11419498/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Endoscopic UltrasoundPub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-08-21DOI: 10.1097/eus.0000000000000078
Yi-Zhi Chen, Xiao-Ou Qiu, Lei Wang, Xi Jiang, Xiao-Ju Su, Jing-Song Xia, Zhuan Liao, Zhao-Shen Li
{"title":"Novel ultrasound capsule endoscopy for gastrointestinal scanning: An <i>in vivo</i> animal study.","authors":"Yi-Zhi Chen, Xiao-Ou Qiu, Lei Wang, Xi Jiang, Xiao-Ju Su, Jing-Song Xia, Zhuan Liao, Zhao-Shen Li","doi":"10.1097/eus.0000000000000078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/eus.0000000000000078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>EUS is an important modality for diagnosis and assessment of gastrointestinal (GI) subepithelial lesions. However, EUS is invasive and operator-dependent and requires sedation in most cases. The newly developed ultrasound capsule endoscopy (USCE) system, with both white-light and ultrasound imaging modalities, is a minimally invasive method for superficial and submucosal imaging of the esophagus. This animal study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of the USCE system for upper GI tract and small bowel scanning.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Three Bama miniature pigs were selected to scan their esophagus, stomach, small bowel, and simulated submucosal lesions. USCE was performed first, followed by EUS. The feasibility of USCE was measured by obtaining ultrasound images of normal GI walls and submucosal lesions under the guidance of optical viewing. The efficacy of USCE was evaluated by comparing tissue structures and lesion features shown on ultrasound images obtained with both instruments.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Under the optical mode of USCE, the GI tract was well visualized, and all simulated lesions were located. Clear ultrasound images of normal GI tract and submucosal lesions were acquired. Ultrasound images of the esophagus, stomach, and small bowel were characterized by differentiated multilayer structures on USCE, which was consistent with the structures displayed on EUS. And the visualization of submucosal lesions, using both USCE and EUS, was characterized by a hypoechoic and well-demarcated mass in the layer of submucosa.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This animal study indicated the feasibility and potential clinical efficacy of this USCE for simultaneous optical mucosal visualization and transmural ultrasound imaging of upper GI tract and small bowel, providing possibility of using this technology for a wider range of GI tract.</p>","PeriodicalId":11577,"journal":{"name":"Endoscopic Ultrasound","volume":"13 4","pages":"253-258"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11419533/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Endoscopic UltrasoundPub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1097/eus.0000000000000074
Shuyue Wang, Guilian Cheng, Duanmin Hu
{"title":"A rare but interesting case of small intestinal tumor diagnosed by transrectal EUS-FNA (with video).","authors":"Shuyue Wang, Guilian Cheng, Duanmin Hu","doi":"10.1097/eus.0000000000000074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/eus.0000000000000074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11577,"journal":{"name":"Endoscopic Ultrasound","volume":"13 4","pages":"269-270"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11419539/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Top 100 cited articles related to EUS: A bibliometric analysis.","authors":"Tongxin Li, Chenxi Kang, Gui Ren, Yong Lv, Hui Luo, Xiaoyu Kang, Shuhui Liang, Xiangping Wang, Yanglin Pan","doi":"10.1097/eus.0000000000000081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/eus.0000000000000081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Citation analysis is a fundamental method in bibliometrics for quantifying the impact and contribution of articles on a specific biomedical field. The purpose of our study was to identify and analyze the top 100 cited articles in the field of EUS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>All published articles in the field of EUS were searched by using \"endoscopic ultrasound\" and its synonyms as the search terms without time limit. The Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science Core database was searched to determine the citations. The top 100 cited articles were identified and further evaluated for characteristics including publication year, authors, journals, impact factor, countries, institutions, article type, topic term, and evidence grade, among others.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 430 articles were cited more than 100 times. The 100 most-cited articles were published between 1988 and 2018, and the medium citation was 240.5 (104.25). The top 100 cited articles mainly focused on diagnostic performance (80%) and interventional therapy (20%). The numbers of articles studying the diagnostic accuracy of FNA (<i>n</i> = 29) and tumor diagnosis (<i>n</i> = 29) were the highest among research articles on FNA and EUS of diagnostic categories, and EUS transluminal drainage (<i>n</i> = 14) was the most frequently used EUS technique for therapy. The focus of the majority of the articles was on diseases of pancreas (<i>n</i> = 55), and among the 55 articles related to pancreatic diseases, pancreatic cancer (<i>n</i> = 17) and solid pancreatic masses (<i>n</i> = 13) were the most researched topics. In addition, we found that the proportions of diagnostic and treatment-related articles at different time periods have statistical significance (<i>P</i> < 0.05).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our analysis provides an insight into the top 100 articles in the field of EUS, revealing EUS-guided FNA, tumor staging, and transluminal drainage as the major advances in the past 35 years. Pancreatic diseases were the most researched, especially pancreatic cancer or solid pancreatic masses. Our research has found that the number of articles on the application of EUS treatment has significantly increased.</p>","PeriodicalId":11577,"journal":{"name":"Endoscopic Ultrasound","volume":"13 4","pages":"259-268"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11419419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Endoscopic UltrasoundPub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1097/eus.0000000000000076
Maria Victoria Mulqui, Fabrice Caillol, Jean Philippe Ratone, Solène Hoibian, Yanis Dahel, Élise Meunier, Clément Archimbaud, Marc Giovannini
{"title":"Detective flow imaging <i>versus</i> contrast-enhanced EUS in solid pancreatic lesions.","authors":"Maria Victoria Mulqui, Fabrice Caillol, Jean Philippe Ratone, Solène Hoibian, Yanis Dahel, Élise Meunier, Clément Archimbaud, Marc Giovannini","doi":"10.1097/eus.0000000000000076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/eus.0000000000000076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Detective flow imaging EUS (DFI-EUS) is a new technology that detects fine vessels and low-flow velocity without contrast agents, used in real time during EUS, with a better resolution compared to usual technologies such as color Doppler and eFLOW. The aim of this study was to compare DFI-EUS with contrast-enhanced EUS (CE-EUS) for the evaluation of vascularization in solid pancreatic lesions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We included patients who had a pancreatic mass visualized by EUS, with recorded images of their assessment in DFI-EUS and CE-EUS techniques and a histological diagnosis confirmed malignant tumors or a minimum of 1-year follow-up for benign lesions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 107 patients included in this retrospective single-center study, the histological diagnosis revealed 69 cases (64.5%) of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, 18 cases (16.8%) of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), and 10 cases (9.3%) of metastases from nonpancreatic cancers. A smaller proportion (9.4%) exhibited other lesions. As a result, the incidence of intralesional microvascularization was 43.9% with DFI-EUS and 48.6% with CE-EUS, indicating a positive correlation between the 2 techniques (<i>P</i> = 0.0001). Compared to CE-EUS, DFI-EUS exhibited sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of 88.5%, 98.2%, 97.9%, and 90%, respectively, for the detection of intralesional vessels.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The novel technique DFI-EUS demonstrates a remarkable correlation with CE-EUS, exhibiting high sensitivity and specificity for the assessment of microvascularization in solid pancreatic lesions. This method eliminates the need for a contrast agent, thus carrying no risk of adverse effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":11577,"journal":{"name":"Endoscopic Ultrasound","volume":"13 4","pages":"248-252"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11419480/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}