• Jpn. J. Clin. Oncol. · Oct 2014

    Endobronchial ultrasound elastography in the diagnosis of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes.

    • Takehiro Izumo, Shinji Sasada, Christine Chavez, Yuji Matsumoto, and Takaaki Tsuchida.
    • Department of Endoscopy, Respiratory Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan tizumo@ncc.go.jp.
    • Jpn. J. Clin. Oncol. 2014 Oct 1;44(10):956-62.

    ObjectiveEndobronchial ultrasound elastography is a new technique for describing the stiffness of tissue during endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration. The aims of this study were to evaluate the utility of endobronchial ultrasound elastography for mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes, and to compare the elastographic patterns of lymph nodes with results from endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration.MethodsSeventy-five lymph nodes were evaluated. A convex probe endobronchial ultrasound was used with a new endoscopic ultrasound processor to assess elastographic patterns that were classified based on color distribution as follows: Type 1, predominantly non-blue (green, yellow and red); Type 2, part blue, part non-blue (green, yellow and red); Type 3, predominantly blue. The elastographic patterns were compared with the final pathologic results from endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration.ResultsOn pathological evaluation of the lymph nodes, 33 were benign and 42 were malignant. The lymph nodes that were classified as Type 1 on endobronchial ultrasound elastography were benign in 24/24 (100%); for Type 2 lymph nodes, 6/14 (46.9%) were benign and 8/14 (57.1%) were malignant; Type 3 lymph nodes were benign in 2/37 (5.4%) and malignant in 35/37 (94.6%). In classifying Type 1 as 'benign' and Type 3 as 'malignant,' the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic accuracy rates were 100, 92.3, 94.6, 100 and 96.7%, respectively.ConclusionsEndobronchial ultrasound elastography of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes is a noninvasive technique that can be performed reliably and may be helpful in the prediction of nodal metastasis during endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration.© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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