EUS in Esophageal Cancer

Endoscopic ultrasonography is not required for staging malignant esophageal strictures that preclude the passage of a diagnostic gastroscope

“…In these patients, the linear echoendoscope transducer was gently wedged into the proximal stricture and a careful 360°maneuver was done for tumor staging. 6 If an opening of sufficient size was seen within the tumor mass at endoscopy, a high-frequency 12-MHz miniprobe (Olympus UM-2R; Olympus Corporation) was passed through the gastroscope biopsy channel to obtain additional staging information and assess its correlation with the linear echoendoscope findings.…”