Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Diagnosed by Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

Overview

Journal Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul)

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2013 Mar 14

PMID 23483811

Citations 4

Authors

Byungju Kang

Mi Ae Kim

Bo Young Lee

Hwan Yoon

Dong Kyu Oh

Hee Sang Hwang

Changmin Choi

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Abstract

A 61-year-old woman came to the hospital with dyspnea and pleural effusion on chest radiography. She underwent repeated thoracentesis, transbronchial lung biopsy, bronchoalveolar lavage, and thoracoscopic pleural biopsy with talc pleurodesis, but diagnosis of her was uncertain. Positron emission tomography showed multiple lymphadenopathies, so she underwent endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph nodes. Here, we report a case of malignant pleural mesothelioma that was eventually diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration. This is an unusual and first case in Korea.

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