Diagnostic endoscopic ultrasonography: Assessment of safety and prevention of complications

Table 6 Morbidity of diagnostic endoscopic ultrasonography compared to other endoscopic procedures (%)

Complications	Total	Bleeding	Perforation
Diagnostic esophagogastroduodenoscopy	0.009-0.2	0.002-0.06	0.0009-0.04
Diagnostic colonoscopy	0.02-0.25	0-0.03	0.005-0.2
Colonoscopy + polypectomy	0.36-9.7	0.26-8.6	0.06-1.1
Diagnostic ERCP	1.38	0	0.11
Therapeutic ERCP	5.0-9.8	0.49-2.0	0.3-0.8
EUS	0.03-0.15	0-0.03	0.03-0.15
EUS-FNB	0.3-6.3	0.15-3.7	0-0.86

Complication risk of non-interventional diagnostic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle biopsy (EUS-FNB): compared to other endoscopic examinations and interventions (pooled data from literature, table adapted from: Jenssen, Mayr, Faiss and Nuernberg[40]). ERCP: Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided trucut biopsy.