Diagnostic accuracy of directed cholangioscopic biopsies and confocal LASER endomicroscopy in cytology-negative indeterminate bile duct stricture: a multicenter comparison trial.
CONCLUSIONS: In patients with indeterminate bile duct strictures, cytology combined with pCLE has a similar sensitivity, and diagnostic accuracy when compared to cholangioscopic biopsies for the diagnosis of malignant strictures. pCLE may be beneficial for in vivo, real-time histopathologic examination of biliary strictures and help in the instantaneous characterization of biliary strictures.
PMID: 27304199 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Gastroenterologica e Dietologica - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Minerva Gastroenterol Dietol Source Type: research
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