EUS is a useful tool for diagnosis of mediastinal diseases. EUS-FNA plays an important role in staging of lung cancer and in tissue acquisition in patients with mediastinal masses. In this review, the following issues will be addressed: EUS-FNA and EBUS-TBNA, metastatic mediastinal lymph nodes diagnosed by EUS, EUS in assessment of mediastinal lymph node status for staging of lung cancer, media...

Topics related with endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) made up considerable portion among many invited lectures presented in International Digestive Endoscopy Network 2012 meeting. While the scientific programs were divided into the fields of upper gastrointestinal (UGI), lower gastrointestinal, and pancreato-biliary (PB) categories, UGI and PB parts mainly dealt with EUS related issues. EUS diagnosis...

BACKGROUND Mediastinal lymph node staging (N-staging) is essential to optimize the treatment in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Transesophageal endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) has recently been introduced as a complementary method. However, in most reports, EUS-FNA has been performed in patients who have demonstrated enlarged lymph nodes (LNs) on CT findin...

S17 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 P-HPB-01 Role of linear endoscopic ultrasound in the evaluation of hepatic veins and liver sectors Fuad Maufa, Malay Sharma, Saurabh Jindal Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India Background and Objectives: A wide variety of imaging strategies are used to provide comprehensive preprocedural information about...

S17 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 P-HPB-01 Role of linear endoscopic ultrasound in the evaluation of hepatic veins and liver sectors Fuad Maufa, Malay Sharma, Saurabh Jindal Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India Background and Objectives: A wide variety of imaging strategies are used to provide comprehensive preprocedural information about...

S17 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 P-HPB-01 Role of linear endoscopic ultrasound in the evaluation of hepatic veins and liver sectors Fuad Maufa, Malay Sharma, Saurabh Jindal Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India Background and Objectives: A wide variety of imaging strategies are used to provide comprehensive preprocedural information about...

Neutron reflectivity studies of EuS/SrS, EuS/PbSe and EuS/PbTe all-semiconductor superlattices were carried out in a search for exchange interlayer coupling. A relatively weak antiferromagnetic coupling was found in EuS/SrS and EuS/PbSe systems but no interlayer coupling was detected in EuS/PbTe superlattices. In EuS/SrS, where the SrS spacer is an insulator (E(g)≈4 eV), a very weak and short r...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Techniques to optimize endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) in a variety of lesion types have not yet been established. The primary aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic yield (DY) of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) to endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy (EUS-FNB) for pancreatic and non-pancreatic ...

S20 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 Ankit Dalal, Nitin Aherrao, Vinay Dhir, Amit Maydeo, Takao Itoi1 Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 1Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan Background and Objectives: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD) has emerged as an acceptable option for patients with failed endoscopic ret...

A submucosal lesion, more appropriately a subepithelial lesion, is hard to diagnose. Endoscopic ultrasonography is good to differentiate the nature of submucosal lesion. For definite diagnosis, tissue acquisition from submucosal lesion is necessary, and many methods have been introduced for this purpose mainly by endoscopic ultrasonography, such as endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspir...