Esophageal ultrasound with ultrasound bronchoscope (EUS-B) guided transvascular needle aspiration (TVNA)

Authors :: Angelo Scarda
Umberto Zuccon
Dipti Gothi
Mario Tamburrini
Claudia Rinaldo
Francesca Zampieri
Source :: Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, Vol 28, Iss, Pp-(2019), Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2019.
Abstract: We have described a 67-year-old man, diagnosed to have adenocarcinoma of lung by transvascular approach with esophageal ultrasound using ultrasound bronchoscope (EUS-B). To the best of our knowledge this is the first case where EUS-B has been used for transvascular fine needle aspiration cytology to diagnose lung carcinoma. Keywords: EUS-B, TVNA, Transesophageus, EBUS

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