简介：Endoscopicultrasonography-guidedfine-needleaspiration（EUS-FNA）hasbeenappliedtopancreaticobiliarylesionssincethe1990sandisinwidespreadusethroughouttheworldtoday.Weusedthismethodtoconfirmthepathologicalevidenceofthepancreaticobiliarylesionsandtoperformsuitabletherapies.ComplicationsofEUS-FNAarequiterare,butsomeofthemaresevere.OperatorsshouldmasterconventionalEUSobservationandexperienceaminimumof20-30casesofsupervisedEUS-FNAonnon-pancreaticandpancreaticlesionsbeforeattemptingsoloEUSFNA.StudiesconductedonpancreaticobiliaryEUSFNAhavefocusedonselectionofsuitableinstruments（e.g.,needleselection）andsamplingtechniques（e.g.,fanningmethod,suctionlevel,withorwithoutastylet,optimumnumberofpasses）.Today,thediagnosticabilityofEUS-FNAisstillimproving;thedetectionofpancreaticcancer（PC）currentlyhasasensitivityof90%-95%andspecificityof95%-100%.InadditiontoPC,avarietyofrarepancreatictumorscanbediscriminatedbyconductingimmunohistochemistryontheFNAmaterials.Aflexible,largecaliberneedlehasbeenusedtoobtainalargepieceoftissue,whichcanprovidesufficienthistologicalinformationtobehelpfulinclassifyingbenignpancreaticlesions.EUSFNAcansupplyhighdiagnosticyieldsevenforbiliarylesionsorperi-pancreaticobiliarylymphnodes.ThisreviewfocusesontheclinicalaspectsofEUS-FNAinthepancreaticobiliaryfield,withtheaimofprovidinginformationthatcanenablemoreaccurateandefficientdiagnosis.