Assessment of Tissue Adequacy by EBUS in Conjunction with PET Scan and Operator’s Experience

Autor: Nagla Abdel Karim, Asad Ullah, Steven Pulliam, Ahmed Mostafa, Alejandro Aragaki, Audrey Eubanks, Amit Mahajan, Mahmoud Shehata, Sadia Benzaquen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Clinics and Practice, Vol 12, Iss 6, Pp 942-949 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2039-7283
DOI: 10.3390/clinpract12060099
Popis: Mediastinal lymph node assessment is a crucial step in non-small cell lung cancer staging. Positron emission tomography (PET) has been the gold standard for the assessment of mediastinal lymphadenopathy, though it has limited specificity. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is quick, accurate, and a less invasive method for obtaining a diagnostic sample in contrast to mediastinoscopy. We performed a retrospective chart analysis of 171 patients to assess the adequacy of tissue obtained by EBUS for diagnosis and molecular profiling as well as the assessment of staging and lymph node (LN) stations diagnostic yield, in correlation to PET scan and the operator’s level of experience. A significantly increased tissue adequacy was observed based on the operators’ experience, with the highest adequacy noted in trained Interventional Pulmonologist (IP) (100%), followed by >5 years of experience (93.33%), and 88.89% adequacy with p = 0.0019). PET-CT scan 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in levels 1, 2, and 3 LN had a tissue adequacy of 76.67%, 54.64%, and 35.56%, respectively (p = 0.0009). EBUS bronchoscopy method could be used to achieve an accurate diagnosis, with IP-trained operators yielding the best results. There is no correlation with PET scan positivity, indicating that both PET and EBUS are complementary methods needed for staging.
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