Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: jocelyn.srigley@cw.bc.ca.
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. Electronic address: audra.iness@bcm.edu.
Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a real-time, minimally invasive procedure for sampling intrathoracic lymph nodes. Herein, we discuss EBUS-guided procedu...
We first describe the utility of various endosonographic imaging techniques like B-mode, elastography, and doppler imaging. We then review the diagnostic yield and safety of EBUS-TBNA and compare it w...
EBUS-TBNA is a minimally invasive, safe procedure with a good diagnostic yield, and should be the preferred diagnostic modality for sampling intrathoracic lymph nodes in patients with suspected sarcoi...
Resectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a high probability of mediastinal nodal involvement requires mediastinal staging by endosonography and, in the absence of nodal metastases, confirmat...
Patients with (suspected) resectable NSCLC and an indication for mediastinal staging after negative systematic endosonography were randomly assigned to immediate lung tumor resection or confirmatory m...
Between July 17, 2017, and October 5, 2020, 360 patients were randomly assigned, 178 to immediate lung tumor resection (seven dropouts) and 182 to confirmatory mediastinoscopy first (seven dropouts be...
On the basis of our chosen noninferiority margin in the rate of unforeseen N2, confirmatory mediastinoscopy after negative systematic endosonography can be omitted in patients with resectable NSCLC an...
Endoscopic techniques, including endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), are used as the initial approach for the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer and the diagnosis of tho...
This article is a systematic review of studies evaluating the feasibility and safety of transvascular needle aspiration (TVNA) under the guidance of EBUS or EUS in the diagnosis of thoracic and abdomi...
We performed a systematic search of the MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane databases to identify studies evaluating the application of EBUS/EUS-guided TVNA (EBUS/EUS-TVNA) for lesions located at the contra...
Eleven observational studies were included in the final analysis. Meta-analysis yielded a pooled overall diagnostic yield of 82.10% (95% confidence interval, 0.74-0.89) for TVNA, with an I2 value of 5...
EBUS/EUS-TVNA is feasible and probably safe when performed by experienced endoscopists in carefully selected patients. In view of the potential risks associated with the transvascular approach, especi...
The diagnosis of intrathoracic and abdominal masses is challenging when lesions are located behind major vessels. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) or endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)-guided transvascular ne...
A meta-analysis was performed by pooling the data from studies obtained from comprehensive search of Medline, Embase, and Scopus from January 2000 to September 2022. The outcomes analyzed included sam...
A total of 17 studies (n = 411) were included in the final analysis. The pooled rate of sample adequacy was 91.5% [95% confidence interval (CI): 86.8-96.2], while the pooled rate of diagnostic accurac...
E-TVNA offers a safe and accurate diagnostic modality for the diagnosis of mediastinal and abdominal lesions located on the other side of major vessels. Selection of potential candidates and close per...
Background and Objectives: Acute cholecystitis is a frequent cause of admission to the emergency department, especially in old and frail patients. Percutaneous drainage (PT-GBD) and endosonographic gu...
Guidelines recommend that non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with suspected hilar lymph node (LN) metastases should undergo invasive mediastinal LN staging prior to surgical treatment via end...
Patients with confirmed primary NSCLC with radiological N1 who underwent endosonography for nodal staging assessment from January 2013 to December 2019 were retrospectively analyzed....
The prevalence of OMM was found to be 83/279 (29.7%) and only 38.6% (32/83) were diagnosed via endosonography. However, five of them were confirmed as N3 by endosonography. The overall diagnostic sens...
Although the sensitivity of endosonography for detecting OMM was only 40%, the prevalence of OMM was not low (30%) and some cases even turned out to be N3 diseases. Clinicians should be aware that OMM...
MRI and rectal endosonography (EUS) are routinely used for preoperative tumor staging and assessment of response to therapy in patients with rectal cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of...
This study included 151 adult patients with middle or low rectal adenocarcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, followed by curative intent elective surgery in the Oncologic Surgical Unit ...
The accuracy of EUS to evaluate the T stage was 67.48%, and for the N stage was 75.61%; the accuracy of MRI to evaluate the T stage was 75.97%, and that for the N stage was 51.94%. The agreement in de...
EUS and MRI are accurate tools for rectal cancer staging. However, after Radiotherapy - Chemotherapy RT-CT, neither method is reliable for establishing the T stage. EUS seems significantly better than...
Interventional endoscopic ultrasonography/endosongraphy (I-EUS) procedures have rapidly evolved since their introduction three decades ago; however, the classification and terminology for these proced...
Endosonography, a minimally invasive imaging technique, has revolutionized the diagnosis and management of pancreatic diseases. This comprehensive review highlights the latest advancements in endosono...
Endosonography (EUS) is the diagnostic tool with the highest resolution for the local staging of gastrointestinal tumours and, due to the detailed visualization of the wall layers, is recommended in c...
We present six cases of incidentally diagnosed cardiac pathologies (pulmonary thromboembolism of the main pulmonary artery, patent foramen oval with right to left shunt under Valsalva, left atrial app...
The introduction of EUS in cardiovascular medicine allows for a real-time high-resolution assessment of cardiovascular structures and allows early detection of silent cardiac pathologies during routin...
