Clinical utility of EBUS-TBNA sampling in the diagnosis of metastatic non-lung primary carcinoma at a UK teaching hospital

Conclusion: Our experience is that non-lung primary carcinoma is not uncommonly diagnosed via EBUS, removing the need for invasive investigations and ensuring correctly targeted systemic oncological treatment. Further studies with pooling of data from multiple centres are required to study this area.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 20, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Gillott, R., Noor, M., Rana, D., Nash, S., Shelton, D., Narine, N., Thiryayi, S., Al-Najjar, H. Tags: Interventional pulmonology Source Type: research