- ►annals.org FG Gress, TJ Savides, A Sandler, K Kesler, … - Annals of internal medicine, 1997 - Am Coll Physicians Add to CiteULike Add to Complore Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us Add to Digg
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Background: Current methods for detecting mediastinal lymph node ... Cited by 254 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
GA Silvestri, BJ Hoffman, MS Bhutani, RH … - The Annals of thoracic surgery, 1996 - Soc Thorac Surgeons Methods. After a thoracic computed tomographic scan, 27 patients with known or
suspected lung cancer underwent EUS. Accessible abnormal mediastinal lymph nodes
were aspirated under EUS guidance. Patients with positive cytologic studies ... Cited by 213 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
A Fritscher-Ravens, N Soehendra, L Schirrow, … - Chest, 2000 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org * From the Department of Endoscopic Surgery (Drs. Fritscher-Ravens, Soehendra,
Sriram, and Mr. Schirrow), and the Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonology
(Drs. Meyer, Hauber, and Pforte), University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, ... Cited by 161 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
MB Wallace, GA Silvestri, AV Sahai, RH … - The Annals of thoracic surgery, 2001 - Soc Thorac Surgeons Results. Two hundred seventy-seven patients met the inclusion criteria,
including 121 who had EUS. Endoscopic ultrasound and fine needle aspiration
detected stage III or IV disease in 85 of 121 (70%). Among patients with ... Cited by 156 - Related articles - All 3 versions
L Aabakken, GA Silvestri, R Hawes, CE Reed, … - Endoscopy, 1999 - thieme-connect.com Background and Study Aims: The use of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) guidance
for fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of mediastinal lymph nodes has become an
important aid in the staging of bronchogenic carcinoma. In many cases, it ... Cited by 100 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
MJ Wiersema, E Vazquez-Sequeiros, LM … - Radiology, 2001 - radiology.rsna.org RESULTS: In 82 patients in whom a final diagnosis was available, the
sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, negative predictive value, and positive
predictive value of endoscopic US–guided FNAB in distinguishing benign ... Cited by 147 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
A Fritscher-Ravens, S Petrasch, A Reinacher- … - Respiration, 2000 - content.karger.com Several procedures are available for the cytopathological diagnosis of
mediastinal lesions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic
value of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS)-guided fine-needle aspiration ... Cited by 76 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►chestpubs.org A Fritscher-Ravens, KH Bohuslavizki, L Brandt … - Chest, 2003 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Results: The mean age of the study group was 61.5 years (range, 41 to 80 years;
23 male patients). CT, PET, and EUS detected mediastinal lymph nodes (size, 0.4
to 1.6 cm) in 15, 14, and 27 patients (21 of which were suspected to be ... Cited by 159 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
MS Bhutani, RH Hawes, BJ Hoffman - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 1997 - Elsevier Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is being increasingly used for staging
gastrointestinal malignancies. EUS provides assessment of the extent of local
tumor invasion (T stage), as well as a prediction of involvement of ... Cited by 220 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
M Hünerbein, BM Ghadimi, W Haensch, PM … - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1998 - Elsevier Overall, 81 patients underwent EUS with ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy for
the evaluation of mediastinal (n = 29) or abdominal tumors (n = 52). Informed
consent was obtained from all patients. Transesophageal biopsy was ... Cited by 83 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
