title: Needle aspiration of extrathoracic metastases from bronchogenic carcinoma.
abstract: Five patients with suspected metastatic bronchogenic carcinoma underwent needle aspiration of peripheral metastatic lesions instead of a diagnostic bronchoscopy. Aspirates were from the soft tissue of the proximal arm (three patients), an axillary mass (one patient), and a skin nodule (one patient). Two patients had non-small cell carcinoma, two had small cell carcinoma, and one patient had a nondiagnostic aspirate. The procedure had insignificant morbidity, was easy to perform, quickly established a diagnosis of metastatic disease, and obviated the need for a more invasive diagnostic procedure in four of the five patients.
authors.affiliation: Veterans Administration Medical Center, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Liss
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001365:Axilla; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D002283:Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D006801:Humans; D006811:Humerus; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary