A Pilot Randomized Crossover Trial of Wet Suction and Conventional Techniques of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration for Upper Gastrointestinal Subepithelial Lesions

Table 2

Quantity of cellularity in the EUS-FNA specimens.

	DRY ()	WET ()	value
First pass, number (%)	13 (50.0)	13 (50.0)
Specimen cellularity score, number (%)
0	3 (11.5)	7 (26.9)
1	3 (11.5)	3 (11.5)
2	11 (42.3)	8 (30.8)
3	9 (34.6)	8 (30.8)
Cellularity score,			0.068
Moderate and high cellularity, (%)	20 (77.0)	16 (61.5)	0.018
Acellular and poor cellularity, (%)	6 (23.0)	10 (38.5)

EUS-FNA: endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration; DRY: dry technique; WET: wet technique; SD: standard deviation. Specimen cellularity scores of 2 and 3. Specimen cellularity scores of 0 and 1.