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Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for the diagnosis of intrathoracic lymphadenopathy in patients with extrathoracic malignancy: A study in a tuberculosis-endemic country
Author(s) -
Mehmet Akif Özgül,
Erdoğan Çetınkaya,
Nuri Tutar,
Güler Özgül,
Hilal Onaran,
Semra Bilaçeroğlu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.119323
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , radiology , mediastinal lymphadenopathy , lymph node , tuberculosis , sarcoidosis , mediastinal lymph node , lung cancer , mediastinum , positron emission tomography , retrospective cohort study , metastasis , cancer , biopsy , pathology
Mediastinal lymphadenopathy in patients with malignancy is a common clinical problem in tuberculosis-endemic countries. The recently developed endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) procedure enables direct and real-time aspiration of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes. The aim of the study was to determine the efficacy of EBUS-TBNA results in the evaluation of mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with extrathoracic malignancy.

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