Diagnosis of mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis using endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration with rinse fluid polymerase chain reaction.

CONCLUSIONS: EBUS-TBNA is a valuable tool for diagnosis of mediastinal TB lymphadenitis. Using TB-PCR assay and targeting LNs with a necrotic component would improve the diagnostic performance of EBUS-TBNA.
PMID: 31377114 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: J Formos Med Assoc - July 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Lin CK, Keng LT, Lim CK, Lin YT, Lin SY, Chen LY, Yao ZH, Chen YH, Ho CC Tags: J Formos Med Assoc Source Type: research