Commentary: Mediastinal restaging with endosonography —Encouraging results, but does it really matter?

It is universally accepted that endosonography, either endobronchial ultrasound with transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) or endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA), has become the gold standard technique, replacing surgical mediastinal staging (mediastinoscopy, mediastinotomy, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, video-assisted mediastinoscopic lymphadenectomy, transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy) as the first test of choice for staging the mediastinum in patients with non –small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research