[Application of endoscopic ultrasonography in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal cancers].

Since its initial introduction in clinical practice, endoscopic ultrasonography(EUS) has been considered as a valuable tool for the diagnosis and staging of gastrointestinal cancers. With the improvement of equipments in the past decade, EUS-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) techniques has been greatly developed, which opens a new avenue to therapeutic EUS. At present, endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) has been widely applied in the clinical practice of the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal cancers. In this paper, we summarize the latest data of the applications of EUS in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal cancers.