title: Scalene node biopsy in diagnosis of intrathoracic diseases. Clinical notes.
abstract: Scalene node biopsy (SNB) still represents a useful diagnostic method in the difficult interpretation of hilar-mediastinal adenopathies. Of 858 sample cases of intrathoracic pathologies of various etiology, SNB indicated a high histological degree of positivity in sarcoidosis in stages I and I + II (86%) and in malignant lymphomas (91%). As a result, the authors believe that when faced with a process of localization prevailing in the hilar-mediastinal lymphatic system, the SNB is a preferable treatment and should be performed before a mediastinoscopy.
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000473:pathology