Open AccessThe utility of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in mediastinal or hilar lymph node evaluation in extrathoracic malignancy: Benign or malignant?
Author(s) -
Elif Torun Parmaksız,
Benan Çağlayan,
Banu Salepçi,
Sevda Şener Cömert,
Nesrin Kıral,
Ali Fidan,
Gülşen Saraç
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1737.102171
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , radiology , thorax (insect anatomy) , sarcoidosis , mediastinum , mediastinal lymphadenopathy , lymph node , bronchoscopy , biopsy , pathology , anatomy
Newly arising enlarged or hypermetabolic mediastinal/hilar lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with previously diagnosed extrathoracic malignancies raise suspicion of metastasis. Relatively high proportion of these LNs is due to a benign condition. We aimed to determine frequency of malignant LNs and role of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) for clarification of the origin of suspicious LNs in these patients.