• Radiology · Jan 1994

    Case Reports

    Preoperative staging of non-small cell lung cancer: transesophageal US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of mediastinal lymph nodes.

    • M J Wiersema, M L Kochman, H M Cramer, and L M Wiersema.
    • Department of Medicine, St Vincent Hospitals, Indianapolis, Ind.
    • Radiology. 1994 Jan 1;190(1):239-42.

    PurposeTo evaluate the usefulness of transesophageal real-time ultrasound (US)-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in staging non-small cell lung carcinoma.Materials And MethodsTwo patients (a 64-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman) with non-small cell lung carcinoma and mediastinal lymphadenopathy detected at computed tomography underwent preoperative evaluation with transesophageal real-time US-guided FNAB. Two aspirates were obtained from each patient.ResultsDiagnostic tissue from a contralateral posterior mediastinal lymph node was obtained from the first aspirate in each case. Neither patient experienced a complication as a result of this technique, and both were subsequently referred for palliative therapy in light of these findings.ConclusionReal-time US-guided FNAB is useful in the preoperative staging of disease in selected patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

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