A Preclinical Evaluation Comparing the Performance of a Novel 19-G Flexible Needle to a Commercially Available 22-G EBUS-TBNA Sampling Needle - Concepedia

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A Preclinical Evaluation Comparing the Performance of a Novel 19-G Flexible Needle to a Commercially Available 22-G EBUS-TBNA Sampling Needle

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2017

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Kasia Czarnecka‐Kujawa, Alain Tremblay, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Anna Sczaniecka, Sujeeth Parthiban, Lawrence L. Kunz, David Dillard, Xavier González

Abstract

In experienced hands, the 19- and the 22-G EBUS-TBNA needles have a similar diagnostic yield in the swine model of granulomatous lymphadenopathy. The samples collected by the 19-G needle are larger and may have less blood contamination.