Table 1.

Details of studies on EUS-FNA and EUS-FNB.

Author	Year	FNA/FNB	Gauge of Needle	FNB Needle Used	Number of FNA	Number of <20 mm	Number of ≥20 mm	Diagnostic Rate of FNA	Diagnostic Rate of FNA <20 mm	Diagnostic Rate of FNA ≥20 mm	Number of FNB	Number of <20 mm	Number of ≥20 mm	Diagnostic Rate of FNB	Diagnostic Rate of FNB <20 mm	Diagnostic Rate of FNB ≥20 mm	Adverse Event (%)
Akahoshi et al. [42]	2007	FNA	22		51	21	30	0.82	0.71	0.90							0
Kobara et al. [54]	2017	FNA	19/22/25		23	17	6	0.35	0.35	0.33							0
Attila et al. [7]	2018	FNA	22		22	10	12	0.73	0.50	0.92							4.5
Adachi et al. [55]	2019	FNA	22		31	3	28	0.81	0.67	0.82							0
Osoegawa et al. [56]	2019	FNA	20/22/25		24	13	11	0.71	0.54	0.91							0
Park et al. [57]	2019	FNB	20/22	Reverse-bevel							28	15	13	0.64	0.47	0.85	0
Inoue et al. [38]	2019	FNB	19/20/22/25	Reverse-bevel, Franseen							57	30	27	0.82	0.67	0.97	3.5
Iwai et al. [51]	2018	FNA/FNB	19/22	Reverse-bevel	12	3	9	0.74	0.83	0.71	11	3	8	0.91	0.83	0.94	0
Fujita et al. [52]	2018	FNA/FNB	22	Franseen	44	15	29	0.75	0.60	0.83	17	5	12	0.94	1	0.92	0
Trindade et al. [53]	2019	FNA/FNB	19/22/25	Fork-tip	46	23	23	0.37	0.39	0.35	101	39	62	0.89	0.82	0.94	0
Minoda et al. [58]	2020	FNA/FNB	19/20/22/25	Reverse-bevel, Franseen	69	38	31	0.74	0.68	0.80	37	18	19	0.89	0.78	1	0
Sekine et al. [59]	2021	FNA/FNB	19/20/22/25	Reverse-bevel, Franseen	31	11	20	0.74	0.73	0.75	31	13	18	0.87	1	0.78	3.2 (FNB)