Table 3. Summary of tissue acquisition results.

Characteristic	FNA (n = 70)	FNB (n = 70)	P value
Mean no. of passes mean (SD)	3.0 (1.0)	2.8 (1.0)	0.20
Needle Size (n, %)			0.051
19-G	0 (0)	7 (10)
22-G	48 (68.6)	37 (52.9)
25-G	22 (31.4)	26 (37.1)
Diagnostic yield (n, %)	47/70 (67.1)	63/70 (90)	0.002
Pancreatic	29/37 (78.4)	33/36 (91.7)	0.19
Non-pancreatic	18/33 (54.5)	30/34 (88.2)	0.006
Specimen adequacy (n, %)	42/70 (60.0)	58/70 (82.8)	0.006
Pancreatic	25/37 (67.5)	30/36 (83.3)	0.19
Non-pancreatic	17/33 (51.5)	28/34 (82.4)	0.019
Crossover diagnostic yield (n, %)
FNA to FNB (n = 28)		27 (96.4 %)	0.0003
FNB to FNA (n = 12)	5 (41.7)%		0.99