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Acquisition of Portal Venous Circulating Tumor Cells From Patients With Pancreaticobiliary Cancers by Endoscopic Ultrasound.
Gastroenterology - 1 Dec 2015
Catenacci Daniel V T, Chapman Christopher G, Xu Peng, Koons Ann, Konda Vani J, Siddiqui Uzma D, Waxman Irving
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Tumor cells circulate in low numbers in peripheral blood; their detection is used predominantly in metastatic disease. We evaluated the feasibility and safety of sampling portal venous blood via endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) to count portal venous circulating tumor cells (CTCs), compared with paired peripheral CTCs, in patients with pancreaticobiliary cancers (PBCs). METHODS: In a single-center...
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