Transbronchial fine needle aspiration.

Cardiac tamponade following transbronchial needle aspiration.

Bronchoscopic transbronchial fine needle aspiration of the mediastinum is generally known as a safe procedure. Complications such as pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, major bronchial haemorrhage and significant bleeding after a major vessel puncture are rare events. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of life-threatening cardiac tamponade following transbronchial fine needle aspiration i...

Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is an outpatient minimally invasive procedure which is increasingly used, over the last decade, as a technique to visualise and sample structures within and adjacent to the airways and the mediastinum. It is an evolving technique with many applications and is most widely used in staging and diagnosis of lung cancer and...

Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA): A Practical Approach

Transbronchial and transoesophageal (ultrasound-guided) needle aspirations for the analysis of mediastinal lesions.

A tissue diagnosis of mediastinal nodes is frequently needed for accurate lung cancer staging as well as the assessment of mediastinal masses. Transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is a safe procedure that is performed during routine bronchoscopy. Provided mediastinal metastases are confirmed, TBNA has a high impact on patient management. Unfortunately, TBNA remains underused in current daily...

Infectious complications from full extension endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration.

The development of a convex probe endobronchial ultrasound (CP-EBUS) videobronchoscope to allow real-time transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) has been a significant advance in minimally invasive lung cancer staging and diagnosis. Several recent studies have demonstrated CP-EBUS-TBNA to have recovery rivalling that of the current gold standard, cervical mediastinoscopy. These same studies ha...

British Thoracic Society guideline for advanced diagnostic and therapeutic flexible bronchoscopy in adults.

Conventional transbronchial fine needle aspiration (TBNA) B < Conventional transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is a safe technique and should be used to sample mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy during initial diagnostic bronchoscopy where a pre-procedure CT scan has demonstrated significant adenopathy. < Conventional TBNA is a safe technique for sampling hilar and mediastinal lymph node...