2 results match your criteria: "Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center Affiliated to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai[Affiliation]"

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has increasingly been performed for the diagnosis and staging of thoracic malignancies. Findings of a necrotic lymph node raise concern for infectious process and malignancy. A hypoechoic area on ultrasound/EBUS within a lymph node without blood flow is suggestive of pathologies like infections or malignancy.

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Fatal Cerebral Air Embolism: A Case Series and Literature Review.

Case Rep Crit Care

September 2016

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center Affiliated to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1650 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10457, USA.

Cerebral air embolism (CAE) is an infrequently reported complication of routine medical procedures. We present two cases of CAE. The first patient was a 55-year-old male presenting with vomiting and loss of consciousness one day after his hemodialysis session.

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