title: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of adrenal lesions.
abstract: The use of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) appears to be a safe and feasible means of confirming or excluding malignancy in the adrenal glands. EUS-FNA with biopsy of suspicious masses in either adrenal gland allows for assessment of these lesions while keeping complications relatively rare. The main advantages of EUS-FNA are that it can be done as an outpatient procedure, with good results, minimal morbidity, and a short hospital stay. Nevertheless, EUS-FNA of adrenal masses should be indicated only in selected cases, in which there is potential to either decrease unnecessary treatment or guide therapy in cancer patients by aiding in either staging of malignancy or treatment of recurrence.v.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Health Systems, New York (Rashmee Patil).
authors.forename: Rashmee
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Academic Affiliate of The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Clinical Affiliate of The Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, New York (Mel A. Ona, Sushil Duddempudi, Sury Anand).
authors.forename: Mel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ona
authors.affiliation: Department of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Academic and Clinical Affiliate of the University of Texas, Houston, Texas (Charilaos Papafragkakis).
authors.forename: Charilaos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Papafragkakis
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Academic Affiliate of The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Clinical Affiliate of The Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, New York (Mel A. Ona, Sushil Duddempudi, Sury Anand).
authors.forename: Sushil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duddempudi
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Academic Affiliate of The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Clinical Affiliate of The Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, New York (Mel A. Ona, Sushil Duddempudi, Sury Anand).
authors.forename: Sury
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Anand
authors.affiliation: Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (Laith H. Jamil), USA.
authors.forename: Laith H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Jamil
keywords: Adrenal gland; endoscopic ultrasound; fine-needle aspiration; puncture