Krishna Somashekar G, Bhutani Manoop S, Mosher Charles H, Staerkel Gregg A, Weston Brian R
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA.
JOP. 2013 May 10;14(3):283-5. doi: 10.6092/1590-8577/1505.
Pancreatic involvement in systemic light chain (AL)-amyloidosis is exceedingly rare. Prior reports of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) for the diagnosis of amyloidosis are also limited.
We report the first description of EUS-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) for the diagnosis of primary AL-amyloidosis involving the pancreas.
EUS-FNA can be effectively utilized for the characterization and cytologic diagnosis of pancreatic amyloidosis and potentially other accessible extraluminal amyloid deposits.
胰腺受累于系统性轻链(AL)淀粉样变极为罕见。既往关于内镜超声(EUS)用于诊断淀粉样变的报道也很有限。
我们报告了首例关于EUS引导下细针穿刺抽吸(FNA)用于诊断累及胰腺的原发性AL淀粉样变的描述。
EUS-FNA可有效用于胰腺淀粉样变以及潜在的其他可及的腔外淀粉样沉积物的特征描述和细胞学诊断。