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 HatajiPublished 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.