Genetic analysis of postoperative recurrence of pancreatic cancer potentially owing to needle tract seeding during EUS-FNB

Conclusions The genetic lineages of sampled tissues from our patient revealed that needle tract seeding may have incidentally occurred when a subset of neoplastic cells within a heterogeneous tumor (i. e., an aggressive clone) was targeted during EUS-FNB. [...] © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New YorkArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents  |  Abstract  |  open access Full text

Source: Endoscopy International Open - December 9, 2019 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Kawabata, Hidemasa Miyazawa, Yuki Sato, Hiroki Okada, Tetsuhiro Hayashi, Akihiro Iwama, Takuya Fujibayashi, Shugo Goto, Takuma Sasajima, Junpei Takauji, Shuhei Fujiya, Mikihiro Torimoto, Yoshihiro Tanino, Mishie Omori, Yuko Ono, Yusuke Karasaki, Hidenori Tags: Case report Source Type: research