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Table 3 Comparison of personal and clinical factors of 166 patients with malignancy between the positive and false-negative fine needle aspiration cytological diagnostic groups

From: Factors affecting cytological results of endoscopic ultrasound guided-fine needle aspiration during learning

Variable

Positive(n = 126)

False-negative(n = 40)

P value

CP, n (%)

13 (10.3%)

8 (20.0%)

0.114

Tumor location, nF1

16/42/32/13/23

8/17/7/5/3

0.063

Puncture route, nF2

57/69

23/17

0.086

Tumor size, cm

3.5 ± 1.5

3.2 ± 2.1

0.290

Pass number, n

4.2 ± 1.3

3.8 ± 1.6

0.093

Surgeon 1/2, n

67/59

15/25

0.085

  1. SD Standard deviation, CP Chronic pancreatitis, AP Acute pancreatitis
  2. F1Pancreas uncinate process/head/ body/tail/ others
  3. F2 Transduodenal / Transgastric route
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