Comparison of specimen adequacy and diagnostic accuracy of a 25-gauge and 22-gauge needle in endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration | Zendy

Christopher Di Felice | Zendy; Benjamin Young | Zendy; Maroun Matta | Zendy

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Comparison of specimen adequacy and diagnostic accuracy of a 25-gauge and 22-gauge needle in endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration

Author(s) -

Christopher Di Felice,

Benjamin Young,

Maroun Matta

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of thoracic disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 2077-6624

pISSN - 2072-1439

DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2019.04.20

Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , radiology , biopsy , sampling (signal processing) , lymph , granuloma , retrospective cohort study , nuclear medicine , surgery , pathology , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is the preferred diagnostic modality for sampling mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes (LNs). The conventional needle used for sampling is either a 21-gauge (21G) or 22-gauge (22G). A 25-gauge (25G) needle has recently been introduced with little known regarding its efficacy.

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