Table 1.
General characteristics, clinical symptoms, and diagnostic methods
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| Age± | 63.2±10.5 |
| Gender (%) | |
| Female | 30.4 |
| Male | 69.6 |
| Symptom at admission (%) | |
| Icterus | 41.4 |
| Abdominal pain | 26.8 |
| Weight loss | 12.1 |
| Weakness | 8.5 |
| Other | 10.9 |
| Lesion size mm | 36.8 (14–80) |
| Lesion location (%) | |
| Head | 67.1 |
| Body | 23.2 |
| Tail | 9.8 |
| Malignant patient (%) | 85.4 |
| Benign patient (%) | 14.6 |
| Diagnostic method | |
| EUS-FNA (%) | 86.6 |
| The average number of needle passes | 2.87 |
| *Surgical (%) | 8.5 |
| *Percutaneous biopsy (%) | 4.9 |
*
: Patients with clinical suspicion of severe malignancy who could not be diagnosed with the EUS-FNA method were diagnosed with alternative methods.