If after a careful medical assessment, clinical examinations, laboratory tests and other ultrasound or endoscopic procedure, there is a suspicion of certain disease of the oesophagus, stomach, rectum, biliary ducts or pancreas, we arrange for EUS, which may be useful as a complementary or a final diagnostic test.
Most often it is used for:
- identifying bile duct stones (especially in the presence of problems which are similar to those before a gallstone surgery)
- identifying pancreatic diseases (when abnormal lab test or abnormal abdominal organ ultrasound indicators are present)
- identifying different thickenings of the gastrointestinal wall, which may have surfaced during the previous endoscopic examinations (gastroscopy, colonoscopy). EUS allows us to assess the nature, size and distribution of these changes and possibilities for surgical removal.