Introduction: Mediastinal and hilar nodal staging is one of the key points for differentiating treatment modalities in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The aim of the present study was to determinate the diagnostic yields of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA), endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) and combined EBUS-TBNA and EUS-FNA modalities for nodal staging in potentially operable NSCLC patients.
Materials And Methods: Twenty consecutive patients were prospectively enrolled in the study between March 2014 and November 2015. All patients had a potentially operable NSCLC diagnosis before endosonographic procedures.
Result: Thirty lymph nodes were sampled by EBUS-TBNA and 17 lymph nodes were sampled by EUS-FNA in all 20 patients. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic accuracy of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography (PET-CT), EBUS-TBNA, EUS-FNA and combined EBUS-TBNA and EUS-FNA were 100%, 33.3%, 64.7%, 100% and 70.0%; 81.8%, 100%, 100%, 81.8% and 90%; 81.8%, 100%, 100%, 75% and 88.2%; 90.9%, 100%, 100%, 90.0% and 95.0%, respectively.
Conclusions: The combined EBUS-TBNA and EUS-FNA technique is a successful procedure for nodal staging in potentially operable NSCLC patients.
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JAMA Surg
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Breast Unit, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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Design, Setting, And Participants: In the NEOSENTITURK MF-1803 prospective cohort registry trial, patients from 37 centers with cT1-4N1-3M0 disease treated with sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) or targeted axillary dissection (TAD) alone or with ypN-negative or ypN-positive disease after NAC were recruited between February 15, 2019, and January 1, 2023, and evaluated.
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Methods: This study was performed between January 2010 and August 2022.
In Vivo
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Department of Pathology and Translational Genomics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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