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Table 2 Complications of EUS-FNA reported in the included studies

From: Endoscopic ultrasonography with fine-needle aspiration for histological diagnosis of solid pancreatic masses: a meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies

Study

Number

Percent

Post-procedural complications

Giovannini et al. 1995 [8]

0

0

No complications reported

Cahn et al. 1996 [9]

Unknown

-

-

Bhutani et al. 1997 [10]

1/47

2

Infection (n = 1)

Faigel et al. 1997 [11]

0/45

0

No complications reported

Chang et al. 1997 [23]

1/44

2

Fever (n = 1)

Bentz et al. 1998 [24]

Unknown

-

-

Voss et al. 2000 [12]

5/90

5

Bleeding (n = 4), abdominal pain (n = 1)

Gress et al. 2001 [13]

3/102

2.9

Gastric mucosal bleeding (n = 2), pancreatitis (n = 1)

Ylagan et al. 2002 [14]

1/91

1

Acute pancreatitis (n = 1).

Harewood 2002 [15]

1/185

0.5

Mild pancreatitis (n = 1).

Raut et al. 2003 [16]

4/233

2

Duodenal perforation (n = 2), abdominal pain (n = 1), pancreatitis (n = 1)

Afify et al. 2003 [17]

Unknown

-

-

Agarwal et al. 2004 [18]

2/81

2.5

Abdominal pain (n = 2)

Ryozawa et al. 2005 [19]

0

0

No complications reported

Eloubeidi et al. 2007 [20]

11/547

2

Acute pancreatitis (n = 5), abdominal pain (n = 3), fever (n = 2), the use of reversal medication (n = 1)

Fisher et al. 2009 [25]

2/100

2

Mucosal bleeding (n = 1), abdominal pain (n = 1)

Krishna et al. 2009 [21]

Unknown

-

-

Touchefeu et al. 2009 [22]

2/90

2.2

Fever (n = 1), abdominal pain (n = 1)

Cherian et al. 2010 [7]

Unknown

-

-

Uehara et al. 2011 [26]

2/120

1.6

Mild pancreatitis (n = 2)