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Utility of EBUS-TBNA in PET-positive mediastinal lymph nodes in subjects with extra-thoracic malignancy

BACKGROUND/AIM: Patients with primary extra-thoracic malignancy (ETM) often have hyper-metabolic mediastinal lymph nodes (HM-MLN) in the PET-scan done for initial staging or post treatment follow-up. There is scant data on the etiology of HM-MLN in such patients, which can also be due to non-maligna...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Ravindra M., Biraris, Pavankumar, Patil, Shekhar, Singla, Abhinav, Kallur, Kumar, Gasparini, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6411147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30856231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213437