Open AccessGuide sheath breakage during endobronchial ultrasonography
Author(s) -
Yanagihara Takahiro,
Yamaoka Masatoshi,
Kawakami Naoki,
Onuki Takuya,
Inagaki Masaharu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
respirology case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2051-3380
DOI - 10.1002/rcr2.690
Subject(s) - medicine , curette , radiology , lung cancer , bronchoscopy , lung , metastasis , bronchus , nodule (geology) , surgery , pathology , cancer , respiratory disease , paleontology , biology
Abstract This report describes a case of guide sheath breakage during endobronchial ultrasonography. While steering the guide sheath in the direction of a peripheral lung nodule using a guiding device/curette, the radiopaque band (RB) attached to the head of the guide sheath dislodged and remained in the peripheral bronchus near the tumour. The band could not be removed endoscopically. As the tumour was diagnosed as a colon cancer metastasis, we performed a partial lung resection to remove the RB and nodule together four months after bronchoscopy.