Factors leading to failure to diagnose pulmonary malignant tumors using endobronchial ultrasound with guide sheath within the target lesion.

Yoichi NishiiTaro YasumaKentaro ItoYuta SuzukiFumiaki WatanabeTetsu KobayashiKota NishihamaCorina N D'Alessandro-GabazzaHajime FujimotoEsteban C GabazzaFumihiro AsanoOsamu TaguchiOsamu Hataji

Published in: Respiratory research (2019)

The results of this study showed that technical difficulties and/or pathological heterogeneity of the tumor might lead to failure to diagnose lung malignant tumor in cases using endobronchial ultrasound with guide sheath within the lesion.

Keyphrases

ultrasound guided
magnetic resonance imaging

pulmonary hypertension
fine needle aspiration

single cell

contrast enhanced ultrasound