Controversies in EUS: Do we need miniprobes?

Hans Seifert¹, Pietro Fusaroli², Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono³, Barbara Braden⁴, Felix Herth⁵, Michael Hocke⁶, Alberto Larghi⁷, Bertrand Napoleon⁸, Mihai Rimbas⁹, Bogdan Silvio Ungureanu¹⁰, Adrian Sãftoiu¹⁰, Anand V Sahai¹¹, Christoph F Dietrich^12
1 Department of Gastroenterology, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Oldenburg; Universitatsklinik fur Innere Medizin - Gastroneterologie, Hepatologie; Klinikum Oldenburg, Germany
² Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Gastroenterology Unit, University of Bologna/Imola Hospital, Imola, Italy
³ Research Center, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
⁴ Translational Gastroenterology Unit I, John Radcliffe Hospital I, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
⁵ 2^nd Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik and Translational Lung Research Center (TLRCH), Member of the German Lung Research Foundation (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
⁶ Department of Medicine, Helios Klinikum Meiningen, Meiningen, Germany
⁷ Digestive Endoscopy Unit, IRCCS Foundation University Hospital, Policlinico A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy
⁸ 2^nd Digestive Endoscopy Unit, HopitalPrivé J Mermoz Ramsay Générale de Santé, Lyon, France
⁹ Department of Gastroenterology, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest; Department of Internal Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine Bucharest, Romania
¹⁰ Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Craiova, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova, Craiova, Romania
¹¹ Center Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
¹² Department of Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Kliniken Hirslanden, Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern, Switzerland; Department of Medical Ultrasound, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Christoph F Dietrich
Department of Medical Ultrasound, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/EUS-D-20-00252