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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Autores principales: Parmaksız, Elif T., Caglayan, Benan, Salepci, Banu, Comert, Sevda S., Kiral, Nesrin, Fidan, Ali, Sarac, Gulsen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23189097
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.102171

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