Wimaleswaran Hari, Farmer Michael W, Irving Louis B, Jennings Barton R, Steinfort Daniel P
Deparment of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Intern Med J. 2017 Feb;47(2):205-210. doi: 10.1111/imj.13330.
BACKGROUND: Transoesophageal endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) video-bronchoscope insertion provides pulmonologists access to conduct endoscopic fine-needle aspiration (EUS-B-FNA) of mediastinal lymph node (LN) lesions and also assist in lung cancer staging by sampling left adrenal gland (LAG) lesions. Limited literature has described additional diagnostic value whilst maintaining patient safety. To elicit whether combining endoscopic transoesophageal fine-needle aspiration using convex probe bronchoscope (EUS-B-FNA) and EBUS bronchoscopy enhances the diagnostic yield of mediastinal nodal staging in lung cancer, whilst maintaining safety. METHODS: All eligible patients with paraoesophageal lesions on thoracic computed tomography (CT) underwent pulmonologist-performed EUS-B-FNA at two tertiary centres and were included in this prospective observational cohort study. RESULTS: EUS-B-FNA sampling was performed at 69 mediastinal LN lesion sites, including 17 sites inaccessible to bronchoscopic sampling. Four LAG lesions were sampled via EUS-B-FNA. There were no complications. EBUS-TBNA was augmented by EUS-B-FNA because of accessibility of sampling lesions otherwise unamenable bronchoscopically, thereby increasing diagnostic utility. Diagnostic sensitivity of EUS-B-FNA for malignancy in mediastinal LN lesions was 88% (51 of 58). For mediastinal LN lesions not amenable to EBUS-TBNA, the sensitivity for diagnosis of malignancy via EUS-B-FNA was 88% (15 of 17). Diagnostic sensitivity of EUS-B-FNA for malignancy in LAG lesions was 50% (2 of 4). CONCLUSION: EUS-B-FNA is a precise and safe approach in the evaluation and staging of lung cancer when performed by a pulmonologist. It complements and increases the diagnostic utility of EBUS-TBNA by further coverage of mediastinal LN stations and access to LAG lesions.
背景:经食管超声支气管镜(EBUS)视频支气管镜插入术使肺科医生能够对纵隔淋巴结(LN)病变进行内镜下细针穿刺抽吸(EUS-B-FNA),并通过对左肾上腺(LAG)病变进行采样来辅助肺癌分期。仅有有限的文献描述了其在保持患者安全的同时的额外诊断价值。为了探讨联合使用凸阵探头支气管镜进行内镜经食管细针穿刺抽吸(EUS-B-FNA)和EBUS支气管镜检查是否能提高肺癌纵隔淋巴结分期的诊断率,同时保持安全性。 方法:所有在胸部计算机断层扫描(CT)上发现食管旁病变的符合条件的患者,在两个三级中心接受了肺科医生进行的EUS-B-FNA,并被纳入这项前瞻性观察队列研究。 结果:在69个纵隔LN病变部位进行了EUS-B-FNA采样,其中包括17个支气管镜采样无法到达的部位。通过EUS-B-FNA对4个LAG病变进行了采样。未发生并发症。由于EUS-B-FNA能够对其他方法无法通过支气管镜采样的病变进行采样,从而增加了诊断效用,EBUS-TBNA得到了补充。EUS-B-FNA对纵隔LN病变恶性肿瘤的诊断敏感性为88%(58例中的51例)。对于无法进行EBUS-TBNA的纵隔LN病变,通过EUS-B-FNA诊断恶性肿瘤的敏感性为88%(17例中的15例)。EUS-B-FNA对LAG病变恶性肿瘤的诊断敏感性为50%(4例中的2例)。 结论:由肺科医生进行EUS-B-FNA是评估和分期肺癌的一种精确且安全的方法。它通过进一步覆盖纵隔LN站和对LAG病变进行采样,补充并提高了EBUS-TBNA的诊断效用。
J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2017-4