title: Malignant pleural mesothelioma diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration.
abstract: A 61-year-old woman came to the hospital with dyspnea and pleural effusion on chest radiography. She underwent repeated thoracentesis, transbronchial lung biopsy, bronchoalveolar lavage, and thoracoscopic pleural biopsy with talc pleurodesis, but diagnosis of her was uncertain. Positron emission tomography showed multiple lymphadenopathies, so she underwent endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph nodes. Here, we report a case of malignant pleural mesothelioma that was eventually diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration. This is an unusual and first case in Korea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Byungju
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Mi Ae
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Bo Young
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hwan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Dong Kyu
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Hee Sang
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Changmin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Choi
keywords: Bronchoscopy; Diagnosis; Lymph Nodes; Mesothelioma; Ultrasonography