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Department of Pathology Honors Program Student Research Symposium
Diagnostic Yield of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration (EBUS-FNA) in Lung Cancer Staging
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Diagnostic Yield Of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration (Ebus-Fna) In Lung Cancer Staging, Subtyping And Diagnosis Of Unexplained Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy, Rino Sato, Rossitza Draganova-Tacheva, Md
Diagnostic Yield Of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration (Ebus-Fna) In Lung Cancer Staging, Subtyping And Diagnosis Of Unexplained Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy, Rino Sato, Rossitza Draganova-Tacheva, Md
Department of Pathology Honors Program Student Research Symposium
INTRODUCTION
- Lung cancer (LC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide and the most frequent cause of cancer death in both men and women in the US (more deaths than the next three most common cancers combined)1
- Clinical staging of LC is an integral part of patient care because it directs therapy and has prognostic value
Patients are routinely investigated with a conventional workup (medical history, PE, lab tests, bronchoscopy), CT and integrated whole-body PET-CT, followed by mediastinal tissue staging for enlarged or PET-positive intrathoracic nodes2
- Mediastinal tissue staging has been classically performed by mediastinoscopy, but they can …