Infection of submucosal tumor after endosonography-guided fine needle-aspiration biopsy

Endosonography fine needle guided aspiration (EUS-FNA) biopsy is an interes ting technique for the diagnosis of suspected gastrointestinal lesions, and is rarely complicated by infection. We report one case of severe infection after EUS-FNA of benign oesophageal leiomyoma, leading to an oesophagectom y. Recent studies about this technique described only infectious complicati ons after biopsy of cystic lesions. They also show that EUS-FNA may misdiagnose leiomyosarcoma Our report confi rms these data, and relates a hitherto non-reported complication, i.e: the infection of a non-cystic lesion.