Do we need contrast agents for EUS?

Adrian Saftoiu¹, Bertrand Napoleon², Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono³, Barbara Braden⁴, Sean Burmeister⁵, Silvia Carrara⁶, Xin Wu Cui⁷, Pietro Fusaroli⁸, Uwe Gottschalk⁹, Michael Hocke¹⁰, Stephan Hollerbach¹¹, Julio Iglesias-Garcia¹², Christian Jenssen¹³, Masayuki Kitano¹⁴, Alberto Larghi¹⁵, Kofi W Oppong¹⁶, Anand V Sahai¹⁷, Siyu Sun¹⁸, Eike Burmester¹⁹, Milena Di Leo⁶, Maria Chiara Petrone³, Erwin Santos²⁰, Anthony Y. B. Teoh²¹, Joo Ha Hwang²², Mihai Rimbas²³, Malay Sharma²⁴, Rajesh Puri²⁵, Michel Kahaleh²⁶, Christoph F Dietrich^27
1 Department of Gastroenterology, Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
² Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Hopital Privé J Mermoz Ramsay Générale de Santé, Lyon, France
³ Pancreatico/Biliary Endoscopy & Endosonography Division, Pancreas Translational & Clinical Research Center, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
⁴ Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; Translational Gastroenterology Unit I John Radcliffe Hospital I Oxford OX3 9DU UK
⁵ Surgical Gastroenterology unit, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
⁶ Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, Italy
⁷ Department of Medical Ultrasound, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei, China
⁸ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Gastroenterology Unit, University of Bologna/Imola Hospital, Imola, Italy
⁹ Department of Medical, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Klinikum, Neubrandenburg, Germany
¹⁰ Medical Department, Helios Klinikum Meiningen, Germany
¹¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Celle, Celle, Germany
¹² Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
¹³ Department of Internal Medicine, Krankenhaus Märkisch Oderland Strausberg/Wriezen; Brandenburg Institute of Clinical Ultrasound, Medical University Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Germany
¹⁴ Second Department of Internal Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
¹⁵ Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
¹⁶ HPB Unit, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
¹⁷ Center Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
¹⁸ Endoscopy Center, ShengJing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning province, China
¹⁹ Sana Kliniken Lübeck, Germany
²⁰ Department of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
²¹ Department of Surgery, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
²² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
²³ Gastroenterology Department, Colentina Clinical Hospital Internal Medicine Department, Carol Davila University of Medicine Bucharest, Romania
²⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
²⁵ Interventional Gastroenterology, Institute of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Sciences Medanta the Medicity Gurugram, Haryana, India
²⁶ Department of Gastroenterology, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA
²⁷ Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Medical Ultrasound, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei, China; Department Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Kliniken Hirslanden, Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern, Switzerland

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Christoph F Dietrich
Department Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Kliniken Hirslanden, Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/eus.eus_20_20