Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration for diagnosis of recurrent nonsmall cell lung cancer.
Diagnosis of recurrent lung cancer by various imaging studies is often difficult because a recurrent tumor can resemble scar tissue or postoperative changes. This article reports how an endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration was used to obtain a tissue diagnosis of locoregional lung cancer recurrence, which changed the management of the patients.
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Rebecca
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Division of Gastroenterology, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. laixx008@umn.edu
D000368:Aged; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle / Q000379:methods; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D014463:Ultrasonography