Ultrasound imaging has gained importance in pulmonary medicine over the last decades
including conventional transcutaneous ultrasound (TUS), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), and …

SEH Cameron, RS Andrade and SE Pambuccian Endobronchial ultrasound‐guided
transbronchial needle aspiration cytology: a state of the art review Endobronchial ultrasound …

The role of the respiratory physician in diagnosing lung cancer has increased in complexity
over the last 20 years. Adenocarcinoma is now the prevailing histopathological sub-type of …

Lung cancer remains one of the greatest medical challenges with nearly 1.5 million new
cases worldwide each year and a growing tobacco epidemic in the developing world. This …

Purpose Reliable staging of the mediastinum determines TNM classification and directs
therapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Our aim was to evaluate predictors of …

Background: EBUS-TBNA is an integral tool in the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer and
other diseases involving mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Most studies attesting to the …

Staging for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) requires accurate assessment of the
mediastinal lymph nodes which determines treatment and outcome. As radiological staging …

Gold nanorods (AuNRs) have the potential to be used in photoacoustic (PA) imaging and
plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) due to their unique optical properties …

Background Linear array endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) has greatly improved the
diagnostic yield of transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) for the diagnosis of non-small …

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer proposed changes to the 7th
edition of the Tumor, Node, and Metastasis (TNM) staging manual of non–small cell lung …