PMID- 25325010
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141017
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 2234-2400 (Print)
IS  - 2234-2443 (Electronic)
IS  - 2234-2400 (Linking)
VI  - 47
IP  - 5
DP  - 2014 Sep
TI  - Primary fallopian tube carcinoma diagnosed with endoscopic ultrasound 
      elastography with fine needle biopsy.
PG  - 464-8
LID - 10.5946/ce.2014.47.5.464 [doi]
AB  - Primary fallopian tube carcinoma (PFTC) is a rare gynecological cancer that is 
      very difficult to diagnose preoperatively. Here, we report the case of a 
      66-year-old female patient with PFTC that was diagnosed preoperatively on the 
      basis of the characteristic features on endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) elastography 
      and fine needle biopsy (FNB). EUS showed a sausage-shaped hypoechoic mass, 8 cm 
      in size, with irregular margins and heterogeneous internal echoes extending to 
      both adnexa. EUS elastography revealed that the mass had a blue color pattern, 
      representing hard stiffness, and a heterogeneous green/red color pattern 
      distributed outside the tumor, representing intermediate stiffness. 
      Histopathologic analysis of the FNB and operative specimens confirmed the 
      diagnosis of fallopian tube carcinoma. This is the first reported case of a 
      combined EUS elastography and FNB of an adnexal mass leading to a preoperative 
      diagnosis of fallopian tube carcinoma.
FAU - Kim, Eui Bae
AU  - Kim EB
AD  - Institution for Digestive Research, Digestive Disease Center, Department of 
      Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Soonchunhyang University 
      College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
FAU - Lee, Tae Hee
AU  - Lee TH
AD  - Institution for Digestive Research, Digestive Disease Center, Department of 
      Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Soonchunhyang University 
      College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
FAU - Kim, Jeong Sig
AU  - Kim JS
AD  - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soonchunhyang University College of 
      Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
FAU - Choi, In Ho
AU  - Choi IH
AD  - Department of Pathology, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, 
      Korea.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140930
PL  - Korea (South)
TA  - Clin Endosc
JT  - Clinical endoscopy
JID - 101576886
PMC - PMC4198567
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Biopsy, fine-needle
OT  - Elasticity imaging techniques
OT  - Endosonography
OT  - Fallopian tube neoplasms
COIS- The authors have no financial conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2014/10/18 06:00
MHDA- 2014/10/18 06:01
PMCR- 2014/09/01
CRDT- 2014/10/18 06:00
PHST- 2013/07/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/11/18 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/11/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/10/18 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/10/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/10/18 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2014/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.5946/ce.2014.47.5.464 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Clin Endosc. 2014 Sep;47(5):464-8. doi: 10.5946/ce.2014.47.5.464. Epub 2014 Sep 
      30.