Charing Ching-Ning Chong, Rapat Pittayanon, Nonthalee Pausawasdi, Vikram Bhatia, Nozomi Okuno, Raymond Shing-Yan Tang, Tsu-Yao Cheng, Yu-Ting Kuo, Dongwook Oh, Tae Jun Song, Tae Hyeon Kim, Kazuo Hara, Anthony Wing-Hung Chan, Howard Ho Wai Leung, Aiming Yang, Zhendong Jin, Can Xu, Sundeep Lakhtakia, Hsiu-Po Wang, Dong-Wan Seo, Anthony Yuen-Bun Teoh, Lawrence Khek-Yu Ho, Mitsuhiro Kida
OBJECTIVES: This consensus was developed by the Asian EUS Group (AEG), who aimed to formulate a set of practice guidelines addressing various aspects of endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA). METHODS: The AEG initiated the development of consensus statements and formed an expert panel comprising surgeons, gastroenterologists, and pathologists. Three online consensus meetings were conducted to consolidate the statements and votes. The statements were presented and discussed in the first two consensus meetings and revised according to comments...
March 3, 2024: Digestive Endoscopy: Official Journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society