The Role Of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration (Eus-Fna) In Metastatic Tumors In The Pancreas

Aims Metastases to the pancreas (MP) are rare, frequently presenting with no specific clinical signs or symptoms and discovered incidentally, therefore difficult to characterize and differenziate from a primitive pancreatic tumor. EUS-FNA is well recognized as a useful diagnostic tool in this setting. However, data regarding the diagnostic significance of EUS-FNA in patients with MP has not been well established and few studies have explored this aspect. Our aim is to investigate first the role of EUS-FNA and secondly the impact of some EUS findings in supporting the suspected diagnosis of MP.