Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) is used for diagnosing lung cancer and certain inflammatory lung diseases that cannot be confirmed with standard imaging tests. The procedure can also help determine ...

Background Non-palpable thyroid nodules can be difficult to access by conventional ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration, particularly when they are intrathoracic. Many of these patients are ...

Over the study period, the authors enrolled 50 patients evenly distributed with regard to the disease stage, and submitted them to EBUS-TBNA (first) and to EUS-B-FNA in the same session. They sampled ...

Lung cancer, which usually triggers symptoms only in advanced stages, was diagnosed early using an Endo Bronchial Ultra-Sound (EBUS) at KRIMS Hospital recently. The malignancy was detected without ...

Ultrasound-guided FNA is the procedure of choice for sampling of thyroid nodules. [12] Nevertheless, for those lesions located below the thoracic inlet, the procedure becomes challenging and it ...