The utility of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in mediastinal or hilar lymph node evaluation in extrathoracic malignancy: Benign or malignant?

OBJECTIVE: Newly arising enlarged or hypermetabolic mediastinal/hilar lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with previously diagnosed extrathoracic malignancies raise suspicion of metastasis. Relatively high proportion of these LNs is due to a benign condition. We aimed to determine frequency of malignant L...

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Hauptverfasser: Parmaksız, Elif T., Caglayan, Benan, Salepci, Banu, Comert, Sevda S., Kiral, Nesrin, Fidan, Ali, Sarac, Gulsen
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506100/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23189097
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.102171
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