transbronchial needle aspiration
Endobronchial Ultrasound Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration for the Diagnosis of Central Lung Parenchymal Lesions
... ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS- TBNA) for detecting malignancy in parenchymal pulmonary lesions located adja- cent to the central ...
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Pneumomediastinum after Endobronchial UltrasoundGuided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration: A case report
... sound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has emerged as a minimally invasive, highly accurate technique for sampling intrathorac- ic lymph nodes, with a sensitivity of 88% to 93% in ...
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Usefulness of Endobronchial Ultrasound Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration for Diagnosis of Sarcoidosis
... ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is an accurate and minimally invasive technique used routinely for investigation of mediastinal and hilar ...of transbronchial ...
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Role of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in Patients with Thoracic Lymphadenopathy on CT Scan
... Context: Transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is a method in which an aspirating needle is used to obtain diagnostic samples from a peribronchial or submucosal lesion through a rigid [1] or ...
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Surgical treatment for mediastinal abscess induced by endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration: a case report and literature review
... ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a minimally invasive method that is now being widely performed to obtain specimens from mediastinal and hilar lesions ...
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Real time endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration of intrathoracic lymphadenopathy: an initial experience
... devised. Transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) as mentioned in literature has been used to sample the mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes with variable sensitivity ranging from 20-89% depending on ...
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Diagnosis of invasive aspergillus tracheobronchitis facilitated by endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration: a case report
... aspect of the distal LMS was also observed, with no evi- dence of a distinct lymph node in this location. With EBUS guidance, transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) biopsies were obtained from this ...
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Complications associated with endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration: a nationwide survey by the Japan Society for Respiratory Endoscopy
... ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) performed using a convex probe ultrasound bronchoscope is a minimally invasive diagnostic method for peritracheal and peribronchial le- ...
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Original Article Endo-bronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy and analysis of false negatives
... ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a mini- mally invasive option for the pathological examination of intrathoracic lymph ...
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The use of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in the diagnosis of thyroid lesions
... Ultrasound-guided FNA is the procedure of choice for sampling of thyroid nodules [12]. Nevertheless, for those lesions located below the thoracic inlet, the procedure becomes challenging and it imposes a higher risk ...
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Diagnostic Yield of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (TBNA) for Cases with Intra-Thoracic Lymphadenopathies
... Background: Evaluation of the lymph nodes in cases with lung cancer for diagnosis or staging has been considered since many years ago. Various methods have been developed for obtaining a sample from lymph nodes. This ...
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Diagnostic yield of transbronchial needle aspiration for lymphoma
... cases, aspiration was not ultrasound- guided as the hospital obtained EBUS after the start of the study period; therefore, EBUS was used in only 4 (16%) ...
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Role of bronchoalveolar lavage, transbronchial needle aspiration with bronchial biopsy correlation in lung tumours and immunohistochemistry wherever required
... procedure that is used in routine assessment of patients for carcinoma lung. It also helps tamponade any bleeding that may have occurred as a result of biopsy. The technique of TBNA was developed in early eighties to ...
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Validity and reliability of transbronchial needle aspiration for diagnosing mediastinal adenopathies
... included in the analysis [18,19] which resulted in overes- timation of the validity and reliability of TBNA. In other studies, non-adequate samples that were verified but did not have lymphoid cellularity were considered ...
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A pragmatic application of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration: a single institution experience
... transthoracic needle aspiration; SCGH: Sir Charles Garfiner Hospital; EBUS: Endobronchial ultrasound; ECOG: Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group Performance Status; EGFR: Epidermal growth factor receptor; ...
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Diagnostic Yield of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in Intrathoracic Lymphadenopathy
... In conclusion, TBNA is a minimally invasive technique in diagnosis of intrathoracic lymphadenopathy. Although the procedure has a high diagnostic yield in malignant lesions involving intrathoracic lymph nodes, the ...
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The role of mediastinoscopy in the diagnosis of non-lung cancer diseases
... Results: Two-hundred twenty nine patients without lung cancer who underwent mediastino- scopy for the pathological evaluation of mediastinum during the study period were included. There were 156 female (68%) and 73 male ...
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The Contribution of Ultrasonographic Characteristics of Mediastinal Lymph Nodes on Differential Diagnosis of Tuberculous Lymphadenitis from Sarcoidosis
... Background: Sarcoidosis and Mediastinal Tuberculous Lymphadenitis (MTLA) are two granulomatous diseases. Differentiation between these two diseases is dependent on clinical presentation, microbiological investigation, ...
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Diagnostic bronchoscopy: state of the art
... ABSTRACT: Since the introduction of the flexible fibreoptic bronchoscope in the late 1960s there have been relatively few technological advances for three decades, aside from the development of a white light video ...
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Efficient utilization of EBUS-TBNA samples for both diagnosis and molecular analyses
... ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) ...many needle passes should be performed and the amount of lung cancer cells that should be sent for molecular ...
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