Repeat Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration in Patients with Suspected Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnostic Yield and Associated Change in Access to Appropriate Care

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center">Days (range)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Time from referral to 1st EUS-FNA</td><td class="align_center">14 (1–200)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Time from referral to 2nd EUS-FNA</td><td class="align_center">48 (11–212)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Interval time from 1st to 2nd EUS-FNA</td><td class="align_center">31 (7–175)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Time from referral to chemotherapy or surgery</td><td class="align_center">121 (33–389)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td>Time to treatment from referral to first and second EUS-FNA or to treatment in 45 patients with suspected pancreatic cancer (EUS-FNA: endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration).<br/></td></tr></table>

Time to first and second EUS-FNA and eventual treatment among patients with suspected pancreatic malignancy at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, between 2007 and 2014.

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Table 4: Repeat Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration in Patients with Suspected Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnostic Yield and Associated Change in Access to Appropriate Care 

Table 4 | Repeat Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration in Patients with Suspected Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnostic Yield and Associated Change in Access to Appropriate Care 