Combined endobronchial and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration for mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer - Concepedia

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Combined endobronchial and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration for mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer

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2011

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Ryoko Ohnishi, Ichiro Yasuda, Tomohiro Kato, Tomoko Tanaka, Yoriaki Kaneko, Taiki Suzuki, Shigeo Yasuda, Kohei Sano, Shinpei Doi, Masanori Nakashima,

Abstract

The combined endoscopic approach using EUS-FNA and EBUS-TBNA provided excellent diagnostic performance. Therefore, this approach is strongly recommended before surgery or mediastinoscopy to avoid futile thoracotomy and surgical intervention.