-
Case Reports
[CT guided percutaneous needle biopsy of mediastinal lymph nodes for staging of primary lung carcinoma].
- H Akamatsu, J Amano, A Suzuki, and Y Kikushima.
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Japan.
- Kyobu Geka. 1994 Jun 1; 47 (6): 462-5.
AbstractIn cases of primary lung carcinoma, diagnosis of metastatic mediastinal lymph nodes using computed tomography (CT) is usually difficult, and mediastinoscopy is highly invasive for patients. By using CT guided percutaneous needle aspiration technique, we diagnosed the metastasis to mediastinal lymph nodes in three cases of primary lung carcinoma. In this method, percutaneous biopsy was easily performed even in obesed patient, and metastatic lymph nodes were differentiated from large vessels by using enhanced CT to avoid dangerous punctures. Furthermore, biopsy of almost all mediastinal lymph nodes may be feasible by using both anterior and posterior approach. This method seems to be very useful for the diagnosis of the staging of primary lung carcinoma.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..