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EBUS-TBNA for diagnosis of extrapulmonary lesions

Author(s) -

Deepali Jain

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of cytology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 0974-5165

pISSN - 0970-9371

DOI - 10.4103/joc.joc_124_18

Subject(s) - medicine , extrapulmonary tuberculosis , radiology , endobronchial ultrasound , mediastinal lymphadenopathy , tuberculosis , pathology , bronchoscopy , biopsy , mycobacterium tuberculosis

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has recently emerged as a minimally invasive and safe modality for the evaluation of mediastinal lymphadenopathy, particularly in staging of lung carcinoma patients. In high tuberculosis endemic countries, EBUS-TBNA is useful in obtaining tissue diagnosis of granulomatous inflammation. Role of EBUS-TBNA in workup of extrapulmonary malignancies is not widely described. Herein, a brief overview of importance of EBUS-TBNA in investigation of extrapulmonary lesions/malignancies is presented.

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