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

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

<h4>Background/aim</h4>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...

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Main Authors: Ravindra M Mehta, Pavankumar Biraris, Shekhar Patil, Abhinav Singla, Kumar Kallur, Stefano Gasparini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213437

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