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The Effect of Pancreatic Juice Collection Time on the Detection of KRAS Mutations.
Pancreas - 1 Jan 2018
Suenaga Masaya, Dudley Beth, Karloski Eve, Borges Michael, Irene Canto Marcia, Brand Randall E, Goggins Michael
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Secretin-stimulated pancreatic juice is collected from the duodenum and analyzed to identify biomarkers of pancreatic neoplasia, but the optimal duration of pancreatic juice collection is not known. METHODS: We compared the yield of KRAS mutations detected in pancreatic juice samples aspirated from near the duodenal papilla at 1 to 5, 6 to 10, and 11 to 15 minutes after secretin infusion, and from the...
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