TOPLINE:
A dry suction technique was noninferior to a wet suction technique for endoscopic ultrasound–guided fine-needle biopsy (EUS-FNB) in patients with solid pancreatic lesions, with comparable diagnostic accuracies. A single needle pass achieved more than 90% accuracy in both the techniques.
METHODOLOGY:
- This randomized noninferiority trial conducted across four hospitals in China (2022-2024) assessed the diagnostic accuracy of dry vs wet suction techniques in solid pancreatic lesions using a 22G Franseen needle.
- Overall, 193 patients with solid pancreatic lesions (mean age, 61.52 years; 59.6% men) to be diagnosed or suspected on imaging were randomly assigned to either the dry suction group (n = 96) or the wet suction group (n = 97).
- The stylet of the needle was removed…