Open AccessDetermining factors of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration specimens for lung cancer subtyping and molecular testing
Author(s) -
Yujun Zhang,
Fangfang Xie,
Xiaowei Mao,
Xiaoxuan Zheng,
Ying Li,
Lei Zhu,
Jiayuan Sun
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
endoscopic ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.883
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2303-9027
pISSN - 2226-7190
DOI - 10.4103/eus.eus_8_19
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , anaplastic lymphoma kinase , subtyping , adenocarcinoma , epidermal growth factor receptor , pathology , lung , immunohistochemistry , radiology , bronchoscopy , cancer , oncology , computer science , malignant pleural effusion , programming language
This study is to explore the determining factors for testing epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion after subtyping by immunohistochemistry (IHC) using samples obtained from endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA).