Cushen Breda, Ahmed Mohammed, Flannery Antoinette, Breen David
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Interventional Respiratory Unit, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland.
J Med Ultrasound. 2018 Jul-Sep;26(3):157-159. doi: 10.4103/JMU.JMU_24_18. Epub 2018 May 7.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in most countries. It can frequently be mimicked by other nonmalignant pulmonary lesions; and therefore, in the case of radiologically localized lesions a pathological diagnosis is preferable before proceeding to surgical resection. Curvilinear probe endobronchial ultrasound is widely used to sample lymph nodes, but in this case, we report that it can be beneficial for sampling parenchymal lung lesions not accessible at bronchoscopy in the absence of lymphadenopathy.
在大多数国家，肺癌是癌症相关死亡的主要原因。它常常可被其他非恶性肺部病变所模仿；因此，对于放射学定位的病变，在进行手术切除之前，病理诊断更为可取。曲线探头支气管内超声广泛用于对淋巴结进行取样，但在本病例中，我们报告其对于在无淋巴结病情况下支气管镜检查无法触及的肺实质病变进行取样可能有益。
