Online appendix B: Excluded publications
Studies withdrawn due to unusable data
Data not extractable:
Bauwens O, Dusart M, Pierard P, Faber J, Prigogine T, Duysinx B, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasound and PET mediastinal hot spots in lung cancer patients. European Respiratory
Journal 2007:E3202.
Gilbert S, Wilson DO, Christie NA, Luketich JD, Schuchert MJ. Does endobronchial
ultrasonography have a place in the thoracic surgeon's armamentarium? AATS Annual
Meeting Abstracts 2008.
Kennedy MP, Jimenez CA, Morice RC, Mhatre AD, Ravella S, Sarkiss M, et al. The
diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy by endobronchial ultrasound guided needle
aspiration in an academic cancer. Chest 2007;132(4):591b-.
Krasnik M, Herth F, Vilmann P, Skov BG, Larsen SS. A comparison of endobronchial
ultrasound guided biopsy and positron emission tomography with integrated computer
tomography in lung cancer staging. Chest 2005;128(4):323S-b-.
Wallace MB, Pascual JMS, Raimondo M, Woodward TA, McComb BL, Crook JE, et al.
Minimally invasive endoscopic staging of suspected lung cancer. JAMA : the journal of the
American Medical Association 2008;299(5):540-6.
Overlapping/repeat data:
Annema JT, Versteegh MIM, Veselic M, Rabe KF. EBUS-TBNA vs mediastinoscopy for the
staging of lung cancer. European Respiratory Journal 2006:Abstract 3091.
Herth FJ, Eberhardt R, Vilmann P, Ernst A, Krasnik M. EBUS guided biopsy for the
diagnosis of mediastinal lymph nodes in a radiologically normal mediastinum.. Chest
2005;128(4):211S-.
Herth FJ, Eberhardt R, Krasnik M, Ernst A. Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided
Transbronchial Needle Aspiration of Lymph Nodes in the Radiologically and PET Normal
Mediastinum in Patients with Lung Cancer. Chest 2008;133:887-891.
Krasnik M, Herth F, Eberhardt R, Vilmann P, Ernst A. EBUS guided biposy for the diagnosis
of mediastinal lymph nodes in a radiologically normal mediastinum. 4th EACTS-ESTS Joint
Meeting, September 25, 2005-September 28, 2005, Barcelona Spain 2005.
Krasnik M, Herth F, Ernst A, Eberhardt R, Vilmann P. EBUS-TBNA: a new method of
endoscopic transbronchial real time ultrasound guided biposy for diagnosis of mediastinal
lymph nodes. 4th EACTS-ESTS Joint Meeting, September 25, 2005-September 28, 2005
2005.
Nakajima T, Yasufuku K, Iyoda A, Yoshida S, Suzuki M, Sekine Y, et al. The evaluation of
lymph node metastasis by endobronchial ultrasound- guided transbronchial needle
aspiration: crucial for selection of surgical candidates with metastatic lung tumors. The
Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2007;134(6):1485-90.
Nakajima T, Yasufuku K, Sherif M, Suzuki H, Nagato K, Yamada Y, et al. Evaluation of
Mediastinal Lymph Node Metastasis by Endobronchial Ultrasound Guided Transbronchial
Needle Aspiration in Patients with Metastatic Lung Tumors. American journal of respiratory
and critical care medicine 2007:Board #G44, Page: A619.
Rintoul R, Buttery R, Hardy C, Rassl D, Carroll N. Endobronchial and endoscopic ultrasound
for assessment of pet positive mediastinal lymph nodes. European Respiratory Journal
2007:Abstract P3875.
Yasufuku K, Nakajima T, Wong M, Ishibashi F, Yamada Y, Suzuki H, et al. Systematic
Mediastinal and Hilar Lymph Node Sampling in Lung Cancer Patients Using Endobronchial
Ultrasound Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration. Proceedings of the American Thoracic
Society 2006:A542 [Poster Board #916].
Yasufuku K, Chiyo M, Sekine Y, Chhajed PN, Shibuya K, Iizasa T, et al. Real-time
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration of mediastinal and hilar
lymph nodes. Chest 2004;126(1):122-8.
Excluded after detailed review of content
Not about EBUS:
Bernasconi M, Chhajed PN, Gambazzi F, Bubendorf L, Rasch H, Kneifel S, et al. Combined
transbronchial needle aspiration and positron emission tomography for mediastinal staging
of NSCLC. European Respiratory Journal 2006;27(5):889-894.
Review articles:
Eberhardt R, Herth FJF. Endosonography in diagnosis and staging of lung cancer.
Pneumologie (Stuttgart Germany) 2006;60(9):562-7.
Herth F, Hecker E, Hoffmann H, Becker HD. Endobronchial ultrasound for local tumour and
lymph node staging in patients with centrally growing lung cancer. Ultraschall in der Medizin
(Stuttgart Germany : 1980) 2002;23(4):251-5.
Herth FJ, Krasnik M, Vilmann P. EBUS-TBNA for the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer.
Endoscopy 2006;38(Suppl 1):S101-5.
Lennon AM, Rintoul RC, Penman ID. Competition for EUS/ EBUS-TBNA/ video assisted
thoracoscopy. Endoscopy 2006;38(Suppl 1):S80-3.
Ogita S, Robbins DH, Blum RH, Harris LJ. Endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration in
the staging of non- small-cell lung cancer. Oncology (Williston Park N.Y.) 2006;20(11):141925.
Trisolini R, Agli LL, Patelli M. Conventional vs endobronchial ultrasound-guided
transbronchial needle aspiration of the mediastinum (8). Chest 2004;126(3):1005-1006.
Woelke K, Rausch V, Granetzny A. Mediastinal lymph node staging with endobronchial
ultrasound (EBUS) and mediastinoscopy - A comparison of both methods. Atemwegs- und
Lungenkrankheiten 2006;32(8):343-344.
Not solely about lung cancer:
Herth FJ, Eberhardt R, Vilmann P, Krasnik M, Ernst A. Real-time endobronchial ultrasound
guided transbronchial needle aspiration for sampling mediastinal lymph nodes. Thorax
2006;61(9):795-8.
Kotsianos-Hermle D, Scherr M, Wirth S, Rieger J, Huber RM, Reiser M, et al. Visualization
of bronchial lesions using multidetector CT and endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS). Eur J
Med Res 2007;12(2):84-9.
Krasnik M, Skov B, Eberhardt R, Herth F. Ebus TBna compared to mediastinoscopy.
European Respiratory Journal 2007:Abstract 210.
Patel NM, Pohlman A, Husain A, Noth I, Hall JB, Kress JP. Conventional transbronchial
needle aspiration decreases the rate of surgical sampling of intrathoracic lymphadenopathy.
Chest 2007;131(3):773-8.
Vincent BD, El BE, Hoffman B, Doelken P, De Rosimo J, Reed C, et al. Real-time
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial lymph node aspiration. The Annals of
thoracic surgery 2008;85(1):224-30.
Not about mediastinal staging:
Gomez S, Andreo F, Castella E, Llatjos M, Perez-Izquierdo J, Astudillo J, et al. Real-time
needle aspiration with endobronchial ultrasound (rtna-ebus) for lung cancer staging in
patients without enlarged mediastinal lymphadenopathy on computed tomography.
European Respiratory Journal 2007:Abstarct 1282.
Herth F, Becker HD, Ernst A. Conventional vs endobronchial ultrasound-guided
transbronchial needle aspiration: a randomized trial. Chest, 2004:322-5.
Herth FJ, Eberhardt R. Actual role of endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS). Eur Radiol
2007;17(7):1806-12.
Kanoh K, Miyazawa T, Kurimoto N, Iwamoto Y, Miyazu Y, Kohno N. Endobronchial
ultrasonography guidance for transbronchial needle aspiration using a double-channel
bronchoscope. Chest, 2005:388-93.
Koh MS, Tee A, Wong P, Antippa P, Irving LB. Advances in lung cancer diagnosis and
staging: endobronchial ultrasound. Intern Med J 2007.
Krasnik M, Vilmann P, Skov B, Eberhardt R, Herth F. Combined endoscopic transbronchial
transbronchial and transoesophageal ultrasound-guided biopsy of centrally located lung
tumours following a nondiagnostic bronchoscopy. European Respiratory Journal
2007:Abstract E3203.
Pascual J, Wallace M, Raimondo M, Woodward T, Johnson M. A prospective double blind
comparison of endoscopic ultrasound, endobronchial ultrasound and bronchoscopic fine
needle aspiration for malignant mediastinal lymph nodes. European Respiratory Journal
2007:Abstract E3185.
Rintoul RC, Buttery RC, Stewart S, Wallace WA, Walker WS, Skwarski KM. Endobronchial
Ultrasound Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration Can Avoid the Need for
Mediastinoscopy in Lung Cancer Staging. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society
2006:A609 [Poster Board #H37]
Rintoul RC, Skwarski KM, Murchison JT, Hill A, Walker WS, Penman ID. Endoscopic and
endobronchial ultrasound real-time fine-needle aspiration for staging of the mediastinum in
lung cancer. Chest 2004;126(6):2020-2.
Shannon JJ, Bude RO, Orens JB, Becker FS, Whyte RI, Rubin JM, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasound-guided needle aspiration of mediastinal adenopathy. American journal of
respiratory and critical care medicine 1996;153(4 Pt 1):1424-30.
Williams WL, Naseer R, Mills J, Edwards J, Howells J, Munavvar M. Comparative yield of
transbronchial needle aspiration (conventional and endobronchial ultrasound guided) and
PET-CT in the evaluation of mediastinal malignancy. Thorax 2007;62(Supplement 3):72
(Abstract P196).
Re-staging:
Herth FJF, Krasnik M, Annema J, Ernst A, Eberhardt R, Rintoul R. Endobronchial
ultrasound-TBNA for mediastinal restaging after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. European
Respiratory Journal 2007:Abstract 1280.
Herth F, Yasufuku K, Eberhardt R, Krasnik M, Annema J, Anantham D, et al. EBUS-TBNA
for mediastinal restaging after induction chemotherapy for non-small cell lung. Chest
2007;132(4):466-.
Herth FJF, Yasufuku K, Eberhardt R, Ernst A, Krasnik M. EBUS-TBNA for Mediastinal
Restaging. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society 2006:A610 [Poster Board #H44].
Krasnik M, Ernst A, Eberhardt R, Yasufuku K, Herth F. EBUS-TBNA FOR MEDIASTINAL
RESTAGING. Chest 2006;130(4):115S-c-.
Krasnik M, Ernst A, Eberhardt R, Yasufuku K, Herth F. EBUS-TBNA for Mediastinal
Restaging. The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, 87th Annual Meeting, 2007
Program and Abstracts 2007.
Reports excluded on basis of abstract or title
Not about EBUS:
Al-Haddad M, Wallace MB. EUS-FNA and biomarkers for the staging of non-small cell lung
cancer. Endoscopy 2006;38(Suppl 1):S114-7.
Anandasabapathy S. Endoscopic ultrasound: indications and applications. The Mount Sinai
journal of medicine New York 2006;73(4):702-7.
Annema JT, Hoekstra OS, Smit EF, Veseliç M, Versteegh MIM, Rabe KF. Towards a
minimally invasive staging strategy in NSCLC: analysis of PET positive mediastinal lesions
by EUS-FNA. Lung cancer (Amsterdam Netherlands) 2004;44(1):53-60.
Annema JT, Versteegh MI, Veseliç M, Welker L, Mauad T, Sont JK, et al. Endoscopic
ultrasound added to mediastinoscopy for preoperative staging of patients with lung cancer.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2005;294(8):931-6.
Annema JT, Veseliç M, Rabe KF. Analysis of subcarinal lymph nodes in (suspected) nonsmall-cell lung cancer after a negative transbronchial needle aspiration - What's next? A
preliminary report. Respiration 2004;71(6):630-634.
Annema JT, Veseliç M, Rabe KF. EUS-FNA in diagnosing lung cancer after a non-diagnostic
brochoscopy and its impact on preventing surgery. Proceedings of the American Thoracic
Society 2005;2(Abstracts issue):A912.
Barawi M, Gress F. EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration in the mediastinum. Gastrointestinal
endoscopy 2000;52(6 Suppl):S12-7.
Bhutani MS. Endoscopic ultrasound. Endoscopy 2005;37(11):1084-1088.
Bhutani MS, Suryaprasad S, Moezzi J, Seabrook D. Improved technique for performing
endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration of lymph nodes. Endoscopy
1999;31(7):550-3.
Brakel K, van OH. Oesophageal endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration biopsy in
the staging of non-small-cell lung carcinoma; results from 43 patients. Nederlands tijdschrift
voor geneeskunde 2006;150(15):878.
Caddy G, Conron M, Wright G, Desmond P, Hart D, Chen RY. The accuracy of EUS-FNA in
assessing mediastinal lymphadenopathy and staging patients with NSCLC. The European
respiratory journal : official journal of the EuropeanSociety for Clinical Respiratory
Physiology 2005;25(3):410-5.
Caddy GR, Chen RY. Current clinical applications of endoscopic ultrasound. ANZ journal of
surgery 2007;77(3):101-11.
Cerfolio RJ, Bryant AS, Eloubeidi MA. Routine mediastinoscopy and esophageal ultrasound
fine-needle aspiration in patients with non-small cell lung cancer who are clinically N2
negative: a prospective study. Chest 2006;130(6):1791-5.
Cerfolio RJ, Bryant AS, Scott E, Sharma M, Robert F, Spencer SA, et al. Women with
pathologic stage I, II, and III non-small cell lung cancer have better survival than men. Chest
2006;130(6):1796-802.
Chang YL, Lee YC, Shih JY, Wu CT. Pulmonary pleomorphic spindle cell carcinoma:
peculiar clinicopathologic manifestations different from ordinary non-small cell carcinoma.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam Netherlands) 2001;34(1):91-7.
Craanen ME, Comans EFI, Paul MA, Smit EF. Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine-needle
aspiration and 18FDG-positron emission tomography in the evaluation of patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer. Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery 2007;6(4):433-6.
De Luca L, Di Bella S, D'Amore E. Mediastinal and gastric EUS: indications and technique of
examination. Minerva medica 2007;98(4):423-9.
Dooms C, Vansteenkiste J. Positron emission tomography in nonsmall cell lung cancer.
Current opinion in pulmonary medicine 2007;13(4):256-60.
Eloubeidi MA. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration in the staging and
diagnosis of patients with lung cancer. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;19(3):206-11.
Fritscher-Ravens A, Petrasch S, Reinacher-Schick A, Graeven U, Konig M, Schmiegel W.
Diagnostic value of endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology of
mediastinal masses in patients with intrapulmonary lesions and nondiagnostic
bronchoscopy. Respiration 1999;66(2):150-5.
Fukui T, Shimizu Y, Takanashi S, Nishizawa K, Minamimura H, Ishikawa T, et al. Acute
pulmonary thromboembolism with a floating right-heart thrombus. 4 surgical cases. Jpn J
Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001;49(2):113-6.
Fusaroli P, Caletti G. Endoscopic ultrasonography. Endoscopy 2005;37(1):1-7.
Fusaroli P, Caletti G. Endoscopic ultrasonography. Endoscopy 2007;39(1):17-20.
Gavril'ev SS, Nikolaev VP, Vinokurova MK, Petukhova N, Gavril'eva LP, Malogulova I.
Improved technology of chemotherapy of pulmonary tuberculosis complicated by other
diseases. Probl Tuberk 2001(2):8-11.
Ghaye B, Dondelinger RF. Imaging guided thoracic interventions. Eur Respir J
2001;17(3):507-28.
Gill KRS, Wallace MB. Endoscopic ultrasound and staging of non-small cell lung cancer.
Minerva medica 2007;98(4):323-30.
Gress FG, Savides TJ, Sandler A, Kesler K, Conces D, Cummings O, et al. Endoscopic
ultrasonography, fine-needle aspiration biopsy guided by endoscopic ultrasonography, and
computed tomography in the preoperative staging of non-small-cell lung cancer: a
comparison study. Annals of internal medicine 1997;127(8 Pt 1):604-12.
Harada M. Recent advances in photodynamic therapy; an expanding role in non- small cell
lung cancer. Japanese Journal of Lung Cancer 2005;45(6):687-692.
Harewood GC, Wiersema MJ, Edell ES, Liebow M. Cost-minimization analysis of alternative
diagnostic approaches in a modeled patient with non-small cell lung cancer and subcarinal
lymphadenopathy. Mayo Clinic proceedings. Mayo Clinic 2002;77(2):155-64.
Harms W, Krempien R, Grehn C, Hensley F, Debus J, Becker HD. Electromagnetically
navigated brachytherapy as a new treatment option for peripheral pulmonary tumors.
Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der DeutschenRöntgengesellschaft ... (et al)
2006;182(2):108-11.
Hernandez LV, Geenen JE, Schmalz MJ, Catalano MF. The underutilization of EUS-guided
FNA in the lymph-node staging of non-small-cell lung cancer: perceptions of chest
physicians in Wisconsin. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2005;62(4):517-20.
Herth FJF. Bronchoscopy. Medizinische Klinik (Munich Germany : 1983) 2005;100(7):394-5.
Herth FJF, Becker HD, LoCicero IJ, Ernst A. Endobronchial Ultrasound Improves
Classification of Suspicious Lesions Detected by Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy. Journal of
Bronchology 2003;10(4):249-252.
Hicks RJ, Lau E, Alam NZ, Chen RY. Imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of non-small
cell lung cancer. Respirology (Carlton Vic.) 2007;12(2):165-72.
Hinterthaner M, Stamatis G. Role of mediastinoscopy and repeat mediastinoscopy today.
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift für alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen 2008;79(1):38-44.
Hoffmann H, Bülzebruck H, Dienemann H. Surgical therapy of non-small cell lung cancer.
Onkologe 2002;8(5):425-433.
Huber RM, Fischer R, Hautmann H, Pöllinger B, Häussinger K, Wendt T. Does additional
brachytherapy improve the effect of external irradiation? A prospective, randomized study in
central lung tumors. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 1997:53340.
Ihde DC, Minna JD. Non-small cell lung cancer Part I: Biology, diagnosis, and staging.
Current problems in cancer 1991;15(2):61-104.
Ihde DC, Minna JD. Non-small cell lung cancer Part II: Treatment. Current problems in
cancer 1991;15(3):105-54.
Iwamoto Y, Miyazawa T, Kurimoto N, Miyazu Y, Ishida A, Matsuo K, et al. Interventional
bronchoscopy in the management of airway stenosis due to tracheobronchial tuberculosis.
Chest 2004;126(4):1344-52.
Janssen J, Gasparini S, Mehta A. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsy in the chest. The
European respiratory journal : official journal of the EuropeanSociety for Clinical Respiratory
Physiology 2006;27(1):238-9.
Junker K. Histopathologic evaluation of mediastinal lymph nodes in lung cancer. Lung
cancer (Amsterdam Netherlands) 2004;45(Suppl 2):S79-83.
Kambayashi T, Ri M, Yanagihara K, Miyahara R, Bando T, Hasegawa S, et al. A case of
endobronchial squamous cell lung cancer successfully treated with weekly chemotherapy of
carboplatin and paclitaxel. Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy 2003;30(6):841-4.
Kayser K, Zink S, Link B, Herth F, Dienemann H, Schrod L, et al. Endobronchial juvenile
hemangioma--a case report of a neonate including immunohistochemical monitoring and
nuclear, cellular, and vascular morphometry. Virchows Arch 2001;438(2):192-7.
Kennedy MP, Jimenez CA, Morice RC, Eapen GA. Is endobronchial ultrasound additive to
routine bronchoscopy in diagnosing sarcoidosis? Eur Respir J 2007;30(3):601-2; author
reply 602.
Ketha S, Diaz C, Farrow J, Mehta J. Rapid reocclusion of left primary bronchus by
fibrinomucinous cast in a case of large cell lung cancer. Southern medical journal
1995;88(4):497-9.
Kuo CH, Wang CH, Kuo HP. Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation of Osler-Weber-Rendu
syndrome diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound. Respirology (Carlton Vic.)
2007;12(2):295-8.
Lagerwaard FJ, Voet PWJ, van MJP, Burgers SA, Senan S, Group ROTS. Curative
radiotherapy for a second primary lung cancer arising after pneumonectomy -- techniques
and results. Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society forTherapeutic
Radiology and Oncology 2002;62(1):21-5.
Langendijk H, de Jong J, Tjwa M, Muller M, ten Velde G, Aaronson N, et al. External
irradiation versus external irradiation plus endobronchial brachytherapy in inoperable nonsmall cell lung cancer: a prospective randomized study. Radiotherapy and oncology : journal
of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2001:257-68.
Larsen SS, Vilmann P. Do we really need more proof before EUS-FNA is considered the
gold standard for lymph node staging of the mediastinum? Respiration; international review
of thoracic diseases 2004;71(6):555-6.
Laudanski J, Kozlowski M, Niklinski J, Chyczewski L. The preoperative study of mediastinal
lymph nodes metastasis in lung cancer by endoscopic ultrasonography EUS and helical
computed tomography CT. Lung cancer (Amsterdam Netherlands) 2001;34(Suppl 2):S1236.
LeBlanc JK, Devereaux BM, Imperiale TF, Kesler K, DeWitt JM, Cummings O, et al.
Endoscopic ultrasound in non-small cell lung cancer and negative mediastinum on computed
tomography. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2005;171(2):177-82.
LeBlanc JK, Espada R, Ergun G. Non-small cell lung cancer staging techniques and
endoscopic ultrasound: tissue is still the issue. Chest 2003;123(5):1718-25.
Liaw YS, Yang PC, Wu ZG, Yu CJ, Chang DB, Lee LN, et al. The bacteriology of obstructive
pneumonitis. A prospective study using ultrasound-guided transthoracic needle aspiration.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1994;149(6):1648-53.
Libretti L, Ciriaco P, Carretta A, Melloni G, Puglisi A, Casiraghi M, et al. Endobronchial
migration of prosthetic patch after congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair. J Pediatr Surg
2006;41(1):e65-7.
Lin CR, Tsai SK, Wang MJ, Chiu IS, Chen SJ. Airway management and transesophageal
echocardiographic monitoring for pulmonary artery sling. J Formos Med Assoc
1999;98(12):863-5.
Lombardia E, Fernandes G, Morais A, Magalhaes A, Hespanhol V. Fiberoptic broncoscopy
contribution in the esophageal cancer staging. Rev Port Pneumol 2003;9(5 Suppl):42.
Loschhorn C, Nierhoff N, Mayer R, Zaunbauer W, Neuweiler J, Knoblauch A. Dieulafoy's
disease of the lung: a potential disaster for the bronchoscopist. Respiration 2006;73(4):5625.
Macchiarini P, Altmayer M, Go T, Walles T, Schulze K, Wildfang I, et al. Technical
innovations of carinal resection for nonsmall-cell lung cancer. The Annals of thoracic surgery
2006;82(6):1989-97.
MacDonald SLS, Hansell DM. Staging of non-small cell lung cancer: imaging of intrathoracic
disease. European journal of radiology 2003;45(1):18-30.
Mantz CA, Dosoretz DE, Rubenstein JH, Blitzer PH, Katin MJ, Garton GR, et al.
Endobronchial brachytherapy and optimization of local disease control in medically
inoperable non-small cell lung carcinoma: a matched-pair analysis. Brachytherapy
2004;3(4):183-90.
Massion PP, Carbone DP. From clinical and pathologic to molecular staging of lung cancer.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2003;167(12):1587-1588.
Mathur PN, Edell E, Sutedja T, Vergnon JM, American College of Chest P. Treatment of
early stage non-small cell lung cancer. Chest 2003;123(1 Suppl):176S-180S.
Mattioli S, D OF, Daddi N, Ferruzzi L, Pilotti V, Ruffato A, et al. Transthoracic
endosonography for the intraoperative localization of lung nodules. The Annals of thoracic
surgery 2005;79(2):443-9.
Medina JL. The value of transesophageal echography in the clinical staging of lung cancer.
Ann Ital Chir 1999;70(6):847-9.
Menconi GF, Ambrogi MC, Melfi FM, Dini P, Davini F, Goletti O, et al. Endothoracic
sonography with color Doppler availability during video assisted thoracic surgery
videothoracoscopic operative staging with ultrasound color Doppler for lung cancer staging.
Surgical endoscopy 1998;12(6):816-9.
Mihailescu R. Endobronchial and mediastinal ultrasonogram--between hopes and results
after 10 years of use. Pneumologia (Bucharest Romania) 2002;51(4):294-301.
Mitchell JH, Fraizer MC, Thet LA, January CT. Purulent pericarditis induced by
endobronchial needle injection of adenoviral-mediated gene therapy. Can J Cardiol
2003;19(12):1421-3.
Miyazawa T, Miyazu Y, Iwamoto Y, Ishida A, Kanoh K, Sumiyoshi H, et al. Stenting at the
flow-limiting segment in tracheobronchial stenosis due to lung cancer. American journal of
respiratory and critical care medicine 2004;169(10):1096-102.
Moghissi K, Bond MG, Sambrook RJ, Stephens RJ, Hopwood P, Girling DJ. Treatment of
endotracheal or endobronchial obstruction by non-small cell lung cancer: lack of patients in
an MRC randomized trial leaves key questions unanswered. Medical Research Council Lung
Cancer Working Party. Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)),
1999:179-83.
Mulrennan S, Muers MF. Respiratory medicine: anti-IgE therapy, lung cancer and pulmonary
hypertension. Rheumatology II. 2006;34(10):431-434.
Ovcharenko SI, Loginov LE, Zavodnov V. Antibiotic therapy of suppurative-inflammatory
lesions of the bronchi with endobronchial use of low-frequency ultrasonic energy. Klin Med
(Mosk) 1991;69(9):29-31.
Parrat E, Pujol JL, Gautier V, Michel FB, Godard P. Chest tumor response during lung
cancer chemotherapy. Computed tomography vs fiberoptic bronchoscopy. Chest,
1993:1495-501.
Patelli M, Lazzari AL, Poletti V, Trisolini R, Cancellieri A, Lacava N, et al. Role of fiberscopic
transbronchial needle aspiration in the staging of N2 disease due to non-small cell lung
cancer. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2002;73(2):407-411.
Petera J, Spásová I, Neumanová R, Skricková J, Salajka F, Hrazdírová A, et al. High dose
rate intraluminal brachytherapy in the treatment of malignant airway obstructions.
Neoplasma 2001;48(2):148-53.
Pujol JL, Parrat E, Lehmann M, Gautier V, Daurès JP, Michel FB, et al. Lung cancer
chemotherapy. Response-survival relationship depends on the method of chest tumor
response evaluation. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 1996:243-9.
Pungpapong S, Noh KW, Wallace MB. Endoscopic ultrasonography in the diagnosis and
management of cancer. Expert review of molecular diagnostics 2005;5(4):585-97.
Ranganathan A, Adjei A, Lara P. Phase III trial of platinum or nonplatinum doublet
chemotherapy based on quantitative ERCC1 mRNA expression in advanced-stage nonsmall-cell lung carcinoma. Clinical lung cancer 2006;8(3):170-178.
Sakurada A, Endo C, Sato M, Kondo T. Management of central-type early lung cancer: an
evidence-based clinical guideline. Nippon Geka Gakkai zasshi 2004;105(7):388-91.
Salajka F. Bronchoscopic diagnosis of lung tumours. VnitrÌ ní lékarÌ ství 2001;47(8):538-40.
Sawhney MS, Bakman Y, Holmstrom AM, Nelson DB, Lederle FA, Kelly RF. Impact of
preoperative endoscopic ultrasound on non-small cell lung cancer staging. Chest
2007;132(3):916-21.
Schmulewitz N, Wildi SM, Varadarajulu S, Roberts S, Hawes RH, Hoffman BJ, et al.
Accuracy of EUS criteria and primary tumor site for identification of mediastinal lymph node
metastasis from non-small-cell lung cancer. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2004;59(2):205-12.
Schraube P, Fritz P, Becker HD, Wannenmacher M. The results of the endoluminal highdose-rate irradiation of central non-small cell bronchial carcinomas. Strahlentherapie und
Onkologie : Organ der DeutschenRöntgengesellschaft ... (et al) 1993;169(4):228-34.
Siewert JR. Esophageal cancer from the German point of view. Jpn J Surg 1989;19(1):1120.
Simon TL, Rughani IK, Pierson DJ, Hebard DW. Multiple plasmacytomas with thoracic and
biliary involvement. Arch Intern Med 1978;138(7):1165-7.
Singh P, Camazine B, Jadhav Y, Gupta R, Mukhopadhyay P, Khan A, et al. Endoscopic
ultrasound as a first test for diagnosis and staging of lung cancer: a prospective study.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2007;175(4):345-54.
Sirzén F, Kjellén E, Sörenson S, Cavallin SE. A systematic overview of radiation therapy
effects in non-small cell lung cancer. Acta oncologica (Stockholm Sweden) 2003;42(56):493-515.
Soria MT, Ginès A, Belda J, Solé M, Pellisé M, Bordas JM. Usefulness of endoscopic
ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiratioN EUS-G FNA in diagnosing the extension of nonsmall cell lung cancer. Archivos de bronconeumología 2002;38(11):536-41.
Speiser BL, Spratling L. Radiation bronchitis and stenosis secondary to high dose rate
endobronchial irradiation. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics,
1993:589-97.
Steiner RM, Liu JB, Goldberg BB, Cohn JR. The value of ultrasound-guided fiberoptic
bronchoscopy. Clin Chest Med 1995;16(3):519-34.
Sterman DH, Beilstein M, Kochman ML. EUS staging of primary lung carcinoma: are we
ready for it? Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2004;59(3):393-5.
Sterman DH, Sztejman E, Rodriguez E, Friedberg J. Diagnosis and staging of "other
bronchial tumors". Chest Surg Clin N Am 2003;13(1):79-94.
Stout R, Barber P, Burt P, Hopwood P, Swindell R, Hodgetts J, et al. Clinical and quality of
life outcomes in the first United Kingdom randomized trial of endobronchial brachytherapy
(intraluminal radiotherapy) vs. external beam radiotherapy in the palliative treatment of
inoperable non-small cell lung cancer. Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European
Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2000:323-7.
Stratmann G, Benumof JL. Endobronchial hemorrhage due to pulmonary circulation tear:
separating the lungs and the air from the blood. Anesth Analg 2004;99(5):1276-9.
Strausz J. Imaging technics in bronchology. Magy Onkol 2006;50(2):121-5.
Sung A, Naidich D, Belinskaya I, Raoof S. The role of chest radiography and computed
tomography in the diagnosis and management of asthma. Current opinion in pulmonary
medicine 2007;13(1):31-6.
Sutedja G. New techniques for early detection of lung cancer. The European respiratory
journal. Supplement 2003;39:57s-66s.
Sutedja TG, van BAJ, Postmus PE. The curative potential of intraluminal bronchoscopic
treatment for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer. Clinical lung cancer 2001;2(4):264-70.
Tagaya R, Kurimoto N, Osada H, Kobayashi A. Automatic objective diagnosis of lymph
nodal disease by B-mode images from convex-type echobronchoscopy. Chest
2008;133(1):137-42.
Takamochi K, Yoshida J, Murakami K, Niho S, Ishii G, Nishimura M, et al. Pitfalls in lymph
node staging with positron emission tomography in non-small cell lung cancer patients. Lung
cancer (Amsterdam Netherlands) 2005;47(2):235-42.
Talbot DC, von Pawel J, Cattell E, Yule SM, Johnston C, Zandvliet AS, et al. A randomized
phase II pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study of indisulam as second-line therapy
in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Clinical cancer research : an official
journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2007:1816-22.
Tomizawa Y, Iijima H, Tanaka S, Suga T, Ito T, Nakagawa JI, et al. Three cases of primary
non-small cell lung carcinoma with mutation of the epidermal growth factor receptor gene
that responded to gefitinib. Kitakanto Medical Journal 2005;55(2):169-176.
Touboul E, Lagrange JL, Theobald S, Astoul P, Baldeyrou P, Bardet E, et al. Standards,
Options and Recommendations for the management of stage I or II primary bronchial
cancers treated exclusively with radiotherapy. Cancer radiothérapie : journal de la Société
française deradiothérapie oncologique 2001;5(4):452-63.
Turcza P, Duplaga M. Navigation systems based on registration of endoscopic and CTderived virtual images for bronchofiberoscopic procedures. Studies in health technology and
informatics 2004;105:253-63.
Valantine HA, Luikart H, Doyle R, Theodore J, Hunt S, Oyer P, et al. Impact of
cytomegalovirus hyperimmune globulin on outcome after cardiothoracic transplantation: a
comparative study of combined prophylaxis with CMV hyperimmune globulin plus ganciclovir
versus ganciclovir alone. Transplantation 2001;72(10):1647-52.
van Beek FT, Maas KW, Timmer R, Seldenrijk CA, de Bruin PC, Schramel FMNH.
Oesophageal endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the staging of nonsmall-cell lung carcinoma; results from 43 patients. Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
2006;150(3):144-50.
van Rens MT, Schramel FM, Elbers JR, Lammers JW. The clinical value of lung imaging
fluorescence endoscopy for detecting synchronous lung cancer. Lung cancer (Amsterdam
Netherlands) 2001;32(1):13-8.
Van Schil P, De WM, Hendriks J, Lauwers P. Remediastinoscopy. Journal of thoracic
oncology : official publication of theInternational Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
2007;2(4):365-6.
Van Schil PE, De Waele M. A second mediastinoscopy: how to decide and how to do it? Eur
J Cardiothorac Surg 2008 33(4):703-6.
van Zandwijk N. New methods for early diagnosis of lung cancer. Lung Cancer
2002;38(1):S9-11.
Vansteenkiste J, Dooms C. Positron emission tomography in nonsmall cell lung cancer.
Current Opinion in Oncology 2007;19(2):78-83.
Vergnon JM. Stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer Interventional bronchoscopy in stage IIIB
bronchial carcinoma. Revue des maladies respiratoires 2006;23(5 Pt 3):16S.
Vilmann P, Herth F, Krasnik M. State of the art lecture: mediastinal EUS. Endoscopy
2006;38(Suppl 1):S84-7.
Vilmann P, Larsen SS, Krasnik M. EUS guided FNA for mediastinal tumors (lung cancer and
lymph nodes). Digestive Endoscopy 2004;16(Suppl. 2):S185-S192.
Wallace MB, Block M, Hoffman BJ, Hawes RH, Silvestri G, Reed CE, et al. Detection of
telomerase expression in mediastinal lymph nodes of patients with lung cancer. American
journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2003;167(12):1670-5.
Wallace MB, Block MI, Gillanders W, Ravenel J, Hoffman BJ, Reed CE, et al. Accurate
molecular detection of non-small cell lung cancer metastases in mediastinal lymph nodes
sampled by endoscopic ultrasound-guided needle aspiration. Chest 2005;127(2):430-7.
Wallace MB, Fritscher RA, Savides TJ. Endoscopic ultrasound for the staging of non-smallcell lung cancer. Endoscopy 2003;35(7):606-10.
Wallace MB, Silvestri GA, Sahai AV, Hawes RH, Hoffman BJ, Durkalski V, et al. Endoscopic
ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration for staging patients with carcinoma of the lung. The
Annals of thoracic surgery 2001;72(6):1861-7.
Wallace MB, Woodward TA, Raimondo M. Endoscopic ultrasound and staging of non-small
cell lung cancer. Gastrointestinal endoscopy clinics of North America 2005;15(1):157-67.
Wallace MB, Pascual J, Raimondo M, Woodward TA, McComb B, Crook J, et al. Endoscopic
Ultrasound, Endobronchial ultrasound, and bronchoscopic fine needle aspiration for the
staging of suspected lung cancer. Chest 2007;132(4):470b-471.
Wiersema MJ, Vazquez SE, Wiersema LM. Evaluation of mediastinal lymphadenopathy with
endoscopic US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy. Radiology 2001;219(1):252-7.
Yamazaki K, Shinagawa N, Kikuchi E, Asahina H, Nishimura M, Onodera Y, et al.
Transbronchial biopsy with the navigation by virtual bronchoscopy for diagnosis and analysis
of the target molecules of small lung cancer in the peripheral area. Journal of clinical
oncology : official journal of the AmericanSociety of Clinical Oncology 2005;23(16S Part I of
II (June 1 Supplement)):7242.
Yang G, Gao M, Chen Y. Combined endobronchial and percutaneous radiotherapy after
implanting the nitinol alloy endotrachial stent for advanced lung carcinoma. Zhonghua jie he
he hu xi za zhi = Zhonghua jiehe he huxi zazhi =Chinese journal of tuberculosis and
respiratory diseases 1999;22(5):274-6.
Yusuf A, Khalid SR, Ahmed Q, Faruqui ZS. Endoscopic ultrasound guided biopsy of a
mediastinal mass. Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad : JAMC 2004;16(3):72-3.
Zimmermann FB, Molls M, Jeremic B. Treatment of recurrent disease in lung cancer.
Seminars in surgical oncology 2003;21(2):122-7.
Zudaire I, Lozano MD, Vazquez MF, Pajares MJ, Agorreta J, Pio R, et al. Molecular
characterization of small peripheral lung tumors based on the analysis of fine needle
aspirates. Histology and Histopathology 2008;23(1-3):33-40.
Review articles: 67
Annema JT, Rabe KF. Lung cancer patients with small nodes on CT - What's the next step?
Endoscopy 2006;38(SUPPL. 1):S77-S80.
Annema JT, Rabe KF. State of the art lecture: EUS and EBUS in pulmonary medicine.
Endoscopy 2006;38(Suppl 1):S118-22.
Barlési F, Doddoli C, Greillier L, Dutau H, Astoul P. Bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of lung
cancer: an evaluation of current practice. Revue des maladies respiratoires 2006;23(Suppl
2):4S.
Becker HD. EBUS: a new dimension in bronchoscopy. Of sounds and images--a paradigm
of innovation. Respiration 2006;73(5):583-6.
Becker HD, Messerschmidt E, Schindelbeck F, Ott S. Endobronchial ultrasound.
Pneumologie (Stuttgart Germany) 1997;51(7):620-9.
Bhutani MS, Jones DV, Jr., Zwischenberger JB. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle
aspiration staging of lung cancer: is it time to go beyond cytology? Chest 2005;127(2):41820.
Bugalho A, Doris MK, Hamacher J, Eberhardt R, Herth FJ. Endobronchial ultrasound:
Practical aspects and clinical applications. Rev Port Pneumol 2008;14(1):55-88.
Burgers JA, Herth F, Becker HD. Endobronchial ultrasound. Lung cancer (Amsterdam
Netherlands) 2001;34(Suppl 2):S109-13.
Burgers JA, Baas P, van ZN. Bronchoscopy: new diagnostic and therapeutic technology,
new indications. Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde 2004;148(26):1280-5.
Chhajed PN, Lee P, Tamm M. Advances in bronchoscopy--new and upcoming
bronchoscopic methods at the dawn of the 21st century. The Journal of the Association of
Physicians of India 2004;52:970-4.
De Leyn P, Lardinois D, Van Schil PE, Rami-Porta R, Passlick B, Zielinski M, et al. ESTS
guidelines for preoperative lymph node staging for non-small cell lung cancer. Eur J
Cardiothorac Surg 2007;32(1):1-8.
Detterbeck FC, DeCamp MM, Jr., Kohman LJ, Silvestri GA. Lung cancer Invasive staging:
the guidelines. Chest 2003;123(1 Suppl):167S-175S.
Detterbeck FC, Jantz MA, Wallace M, Vansteenkiste J, Silvestri GA. Invasive mediastinal
staging of lung cancer: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (2nd edition).
Chest 2007;132(3 SUPPL.):202S-220S.
Eberhardt R, Becker HD, Herth FJ. Endobronchial ultrasound for diagnosis of the
mediastinum. Chirurg 2008;79(1):50-55.
Ernst A, Feller KD, Herth FJF. Endobronchial ultrasound in the diagnosis and staging of lung
cancer and other thoracic tumors. Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
2007;19(3):201-5.
Faber J, Pierard P, Prigogine T, Dusart M, Haller A, Bosschaerts T, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasound and PET positive mediastinal lymph nodes. Revue des maladies respiratoires
2006;23(1 Pt 1):37-42.
Falcone F, Fois F, Grosso D. Endobronchial ultrasound. Respiration; international review of
thoracic diseases 2003;70(2):179-94.
Favre L, Leuenberger P. Pneumonology Ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration.
Revue médicale suisse 2006;2(47):52-6.
Feller-Kopman D, Lunn W, Ernst A. Autofluorescence bronchoscopy and endobronchial
ultrasound: a practical review. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005;80(6):2395-401.
Fischer R, Pöllinger B, Huber RM. Endobronchial brachytherapy. Deutsche medizinische
Wochenschrift (1946) 2000;125(50):1539-41.
Franzius C. FDG PET: advantages for staging the mediastinum? Lung cancer (Amsterdam
Netherlands) 2004;45(Suppl 2):S69-74.
Gasparini S. Evolving role of interventional pulmonology in the interdisciplinary approach to
the staging and management of lung cancer: bronchoscopic mediastinal staging of lung
cancer. Clinical lung cancer 2006;8(2):110-5.
Gatzemeier U, Griesinger F, Huber RM. The Pillnitz interdisciplinary discussion on non-small
cell lung cancer: Summary. Onkologie 2006;29(Suppl. 2):2.
Gillissen A. American thoracic society annual international congress: 18-23 May 2007, San
Francisco, California. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy 2007;8(16):2885-2891.
Herth FJ, Becker HD, Eberhardt R. Endobronchial ultrasound in bronchial carcinoma.
Radiologe 2004;44(5):457-64.
Herth F, Becker HD. Endobronchial ultrasound of the airways and the mediastinum. Monaldi
archives for chest disease = Archivio Monaldi per le malattiedel torace / Fondazione clinica
del lavoro IRCCS (and) Istituto diclinica tisiologica e malattie apparato respiratorio Università
diNapoli Secondo ateneo 2000;55(1):36-44.
Herth F, Becker HD, Manegold C, Drings P. Endobronchial ultrasound EBUS--assessment
of a new diagnostic tool in bronchoscopy for staging of lung cancer. Onkologie
2001;24(2):151-4.
Hurter T, Hanrath P. Endobronchial sonography: feasibility and preliminary results. Thorax
1992;47(7):565-7.
Hyer JD, Silvestri G. Diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. Clinics in chest medicine
2000;21(1):95-106.
Jacobson BC. Multidisciplinary management of lung cancer. The New England journal of
medicine 2004;350(19):2008-10.
Janes SM, Spiro SG. Esophageal endoscopic ultrasound/endobronchial ultrasound-guided
fine needle aspiration: a new dawn for the respiratory physician? Am J Respir Crit Care Med
2007;175(4):297-9.
Kabanov AN, Sitko LA, Loshchilov VI, Mozgovoi IV, Pedder VV. Prospects of using
ultrasonic instruments in endobronchial surgery. Grudn Khir 1983(1):50-3.
Kamath AV, Chhajed PN. Role of bronchoscopy in early diagnosis of lung cancer. The
Indian journal of chest diseases & allied sciences 2006;48(4):265-9.
Kawate N, Tsuchida T, Kakihana M, Tsuboi M, Furukawa K, Okunaka T, et al.
Bronchofiberscopy. Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine 2000;58(5):105764.
Kim ES, Bosquée L. The importance of accurate lymph node staging in early and locally
advanced non-small cell lung cancer: an update on available techniques. Journal of thoracic
oncology : official publication of theInternational Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
2007;2(Suppl 2):S59-67.
Kurimoto N, Murayama M, Morita K, Kobayashi A, Uomoto M, Nishizaka T. Clinical
applications of endobronchial ultrasonography in lung diseases. Endoscopy 1998;30(Suppl
1):A8-12.
Lam S, Becker HD. Future diagnostic procedures. Chest Surg Clin N Am 1996;6(2):363-80.
Matsuo K, Watanabe Y. Endobronchial ultrasonography for diagnosis of lung neoplasms.
Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine 2002;60(Suppl 5):191-4.
Micames CG, McCrory DC, Pavey DA, Jowell PS, Gress FG. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided
fine-needle aspiration for non-small cell lung cancer staging: A systematic review and
metaanalysis. Chest 2007;131(2):539-48.
Pass HI. Mediastinal staging 2005: pictures, scopes, and scalpels. Seminars in oncology
2005;32(3):269-78.
Rintoul R. Towards complete endoscopic staging of the mediastinum? Endoscopy
2006;38(Suppl 1):S110-3.
Rivera MP, Mehta AC. Initial diagnosis of lung cancer: ACCP evidence-based clinical
practice guidelines (2nd edition). Chest 2007;132(3 SUPPL.):131S-148S.
Rusch VW. Mediastinoscopy: an endangered species? Journal of clinical oncology : official
journal of the AmericanSociety of Clinical Oncology 2005;23(33):8283-5.
Sarkiss M, Kennedy M, Riedel B, Norman P, Morice R, Jimenez C, et al. Anesthesia
technique for endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph
node. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2007;21(6):892-6.
Savoy AD, Ravenel JG, Hoffman BJ, Wallace MB. Endoscopic ultrasound for thoracic
malignancy: a review. Current problems in diagnostic radiology 2005;34(3):106-15.
Serke M, Schönfeld N. Diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. Deutsche medizinische
Wochenschrift (1946) 2007;132(21):1165-9.
Sherwood JT, Brock MV. Lung cancer: new surgical approaches. Respirology (Carlton Vic.)
2007;12(3):326-32.
Sheski FD, Mathur PN. Endoscopic treatment of early-stage lung cancer. Cancer control :
journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center 2000;7(1):35-44.
Sheski FD, Mathur PN. Endobronchial ultrasound. Chest 2008;133(1):264-70.
Shulman L, Ost D. Advances in bronchoscopic diagnosis of lung cancer. Current opinion in
pulmonary medicine 2007;13(4):271-7.
Sihoe ADL, Yim APC. Lung cancer staging. The Journal of surgical research
2004;117(1):92-106.
Singh N, Khan A. It's all about US: EUS, EBUS, and their USage. American journal of
respiratory and critical care medicine 2007;175(11):1208-9.
Surmont V, van KRJ, Goor C, Schramel F, Manegold C, Legrand C, et al. Lessons to learn
from EORTC study 08981: a feasibility study of induction chemoradiotherapy followed by
surgical resection for stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer. Lung cancer (Amsterdam
Netherlands) 2007;55(1):95-9.
Toloza EM, Harpole L, Detterbeck F, McCrory DC. Invasive staging of non-small cell lung
cancer: a review of the current evidence. Chest 2003;123(1 Suppl):157S-166S.
Toloza EM, Harpole L, McCrory DC. Noninvasive staging of non-small cell lung cancer: a
review of the current evidence. Chest 2003;123(1 Suppl):137S-146S.
Tremblay A. Endobronchial ultrasonography: extending the reach of the bronchoscope
beyond the airway wall. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de
l'Associationmedicale canadienne 2003;169(6):586.
Turner JF. Endobronchial ultrasound and peripheral pulmonary lesions: localization and
histopathologic correlates using a miniature probe and the flexible bronchoscope. Chest
2002;122(6):1874-5.
Vilmann P, Larsen SS. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsy in the chest: little to lose, much
to gain. The European respiratory journal : official journal of the EuropeanSociety for Clinical
Respiratory Physiology 2005;25(3):400-1.
Vilmann P, Puri R. The complete ''medical'' mediastinoscopy (EUS-FNA + EBUS-TBNA).
Minerva Med 2007;98(4):331-8.
Wallace MB. Endoscopic ultrasound staging of lung cancer. American journal of respiratory
and critical care medicine 2005;172(3):400-1.
Wassermann K. Imaging methods in pneumology: Editorial. Atemwegs- und
Lungenkrankheiten 2003;29(10):457-459.
White P, Jr., Ettinger DS. Tissue is the issue: is endoscopic ultrasonography with or without
fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the staging of non-small-cell lung cancer an advance?
Annals of internal medicine 1997;127(8 Pt 1):643-5.
Whyte RI. Advances in the staging of intrathoracic malignancies. World journal of surgery
2001;25(2):167-73.
Yasufuku K, Fujisawa T. Staging and diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer: invasive
modalities. Respirology (Carlton Vic.) 2007;12(2):173-83.
Yasufuku K, Nakajima T, Chiyo M, Sekine Y, Shibuya K, Fujisawa T. Endobronchial
ultrasonography: current status and future directions. Journal of thoracic oncology : official
publication of theInternational Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2007;2(10):970-9.
Yasufuku K. Endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration EBUS-TBNA
for the evaluation of the mediastinum. Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery
2007;60(8 Suppl):711-7.
Yung RCW. Tissue diagnosis of suspected lung cancer: selecting between bronchoscopy,
transthoracic needle aspiration, and resectional biopsy. Respiratory care clinics of North
America 2003;9(1):51-76.
Not solely about lung cancer: 58 (need 3)57
194-242243-250
Al-Qahtani AR, Di Lorenzo M, Yazbeck S. Endobronchial tumors in children: Institutional
experience and literature review. J Pediatr Surg 2003;38(5):733-6.
Andreassen AH, Ellingsen I, Nesje LB, Gravdal K, Odegaard S. 3-D endobronchial
ultrasonography--a post mortem study. Ultrasound in medicine & biology 2005;31(4):473-6.
Annema JT. E(B)US-Guided Pulmonary Interventions. Techniques in Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy 2007;9(1):25-31.
Arluk GM, Coyle WJ. EUS and fine-needle aspiration in the evaluation of mediastinal
masses superior to the aortic arch. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2001;53(7):793-7.
Asano F, Matsuno Y, Shinagawa N, Yamazaki K, Ishida T, Moriya H. Diagnosis of
pulmonary peripheral lesions by an auto-VBN system combined with thin EBUS-GS.
European Respiratory Journal 2006:Abstract 975.
Asano F, Matsuno Y, Tsuzuku A, Anzai M, Shinagawa N, Yamazaki K, et al. Diagnosis of
peripheral pulmonary lesions using a bronchoscope insertion guidance system combined
with endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath. Lung cancer 2008; 60(3):366-73
Becker HD. Endobronchial ultrasound--a new perspective in bronchology. Ultraschall Med
1996;17(3):106-12.
Compere C, Duysinx B, Dediste A, Gustin M, Ninane V. Postoperative risk assessment of
bacteraemia and other infectious complications associated with real-time ultrasound-guided
transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA). Chest 2007;132(4):439-.
Fielding DI, Robinson PJ, Kurimoto N. Biopsy site selection for endobronchial ultrasound
guide-sheath transbronchial biopsy of peripheral lung lesions. Intern Med J 2007.
Garwood S, Judson MA, Silvestri G, Hoda R, Fraig M, Doelken P. Endobronchial ultrasound
for the diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis. Chest 2007;132(4):1298-304.
Gould M, Kuschner WD, Rydzak C, Maclean C, Demas A, Shigemitsu H, Chan JK, Owens
DK. Test Performance of Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography for
Mediastinal Staging in Patients with Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Annals of Internal
Medicine 2003;139:879-892.
Gupta K, Mallery S. Small-caliber endobronchial ultrasonic videoscope: successful
transesophageal and transgastric FNA after failed passage of a standard ultrasonic
endoscope. Gastrointest Endosc 2007;66(3):574-7.
Herth F, Becker HD, LoCicero J, 3rd, Ernst A. Endobronchial ultrasound in therapeutic
bronchoscopy. The European respiratory journal : official journal of the EuropeanSociety for
Clinical Respiratory Physiology 2002;20(1):118-21.
Herth FJF, Eberhardt R, Vilmann P, Krasnik M. EBUS-TNA A new method of endoscopic
transbronchial real time ultrasound guided biopsy for diagnosis of mediastinal lymphnodes.
Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society 2005;2(Abstracts):A912.
Herth FJ, Eberhardt R, Ernst A. ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND CONTROLLED
LYMPHNODE BIOPSIES IN MEDIASTINAL MASSES. Chest 2006;130(4):165S-d-166.
Hurter T, Hanrath P. Endobronchial sonography in the diagnosis of pulmonary and
mediastinal tumors. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1990;115(50):1899-905.
Herth FJF, Rabe KF, Gasparini S, Annema JT. Transbronchial and transoesophageal
ultrasound-guided needle aspirations for the analysis of mediastinal lesions. The European
respiratory journal : official journal of the EuropeanSociety for Clinical Respiratory
Physiology 2006;28(6):1264-75.
Ikenberry S, Gress F, Savides T, Hawes R. Fine-needle aspiration of posterior mediastinal
lesions guided by radial scanning endosonography. Gastrointestinal endoscopy
1996;43(6):605-10.
Irani S, Hess T, Hofer M, Gaspert A, Bachmann LM, Russi EW, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasonography for the quantitative assessment of bronchial mural structures in lung
transplant recipients. Chest 2006;129(2):349-55.
Kabanov AN, Pavlov VV, Kozlov KK, Pedder VV, Kuznetsov IA. Endobronchial use of silver
ions with low-frequency ultrasound in chronic nonspecific diseases of the lungs. Sov Med
1986(11):66-9.
Keane MP, Meaney JF, Bude RO, Quint L, Martinez FJ. Endobronchial ultrasound guided
needle aspiration on paratracheal adenopathy [abstract]. European Respiratory Journal.
Supplement., 1997:157s.
Kennedy MP, Jimenez CA, Bruzzi JF, Mhatre AD, Lei X, Giles FJ, et al. Endobronchial
Ultrasound Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in the Diagnosis of Lymphoma. Thorax
2007 63(4):360-5.
Kennedy MP, Morice RC, Jimenez CA, Eapen GA. Endobronchial ultrasound appearance of
pulmonary artery thrombus in a patient with thymic carcinoma. Journal of thoracic oncology :
official publication of theInternational Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
2007;2(9):862.
Kramer H, Sanders J, Post WJ, Groen HJM, Suurmeijer AJH. Analysis of cytological
specimens from mediastinal lesions obtained by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle
aspiration. Cancer 2006;108(4):206-11.
Kurimoto N, Miyazawa T. Endobronchial ultrasonography. Seminars in respiratory and
critical care medicine 2004;25(4):425-31.
Kurimoto N, Murayama M, Yoshioka S, Nishisaka T. Analysis of the internal structure of
peripheral pulmonary lesions using endobronchial ultrasonography. Chest
2002;122(6):1887-94.
Kurimoto N, Osada H, Miyazu Y, Ishida A, Miyazawa T. Endobronchial ultrasonography
using two types of the guide sheath (EBUS-GS) for peripheral pulmonary lesions . Chest
2007;132(4):439a-.
Lee P, Low SY, Liew HL, Tan D, Eng P. Endobronchial ultrasound for detection of
tracheomalacia from chronic compression by vascular ring. Respirology (Carlton Vic.)
2007;12(2):299-301.
Lie CH, Chao TY, Chung YH, Lin MC. Primary pulmonary malignant melanoma presenting
with haemoptysis. Melanoma research 2005;15(3):219-21.
Miyazu Y, Miyazawa T, Kurimoto N, Iwamoto Y, Ishida A, Kanoh K, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasonography in the diagnosis and treatment of relapsing polychondritis with
tracheobronchial malacia. Chest 2003;124(6):2393-5.
Morcos SK, Anderson PB. Reuse of miniature transducer-containing catheters for
endobronchial US. Radiology 1994;192(2):579-80.
Morócz E, Strausz J. Endobronchial ultrasonography. Orvosi hetilap 2002;143(52):2875-9.
Morócz E, Strausz J. Endobronchial ultrasonography in postintubation tracheal stenosis.
Orvosi hetilap 2004;145(29):1507-10.
Nakajima T, Yasufuku K, Shibuya K, Fujisawa T. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided
transbronchial needle aspiration for the treatment of central airway stenosis caused by a
mediastinal cyst. European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of theEuropean
Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery 2007;32(3):538-40.
Nakajima T, Yasufuku K, Suzuki M, Sekine Y, Shibuya K, Hiroshima K, et al. Histological
diagnosis of spinal chondrosarcoma by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial
needle aspiration. Respirology (Carlton Vic.) 2007;12(2):308-10.
Nakajima T, Yasufuku K, Wong M, Iyoda A, Suzuki M, Sekine Y, et al. Histological diagnosis
of mediastinal lymph node metastases from renal cell carcinoma by endobronchial
ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration. Respirology (Carlton Vic.)
2007;12(2):302-3.
Naseer R, Williams WL, Howells J, Edwards J, Mills J, Munavvar M. Endobronchial
ultrasound: a comparative study between convential TBNA and EBUS-guided TBNA. Thorax
2007;62(Supplement 3):40 (Abstract S102).
Noh KW, Wallace MB, Pascual JM, Wolfsen HC, Raimondo M, Woodward TA. Fine-needle
aspiration of peritumoral lymph nodes in esophageal cancer with endobronchial ultrasound.
Endoscopy 2006;38(9):953.
Oki M, Saka H, Kitagawa C, Tanaka S, Shimokata T, Kawata Y, et al. Real-time
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration is useful for diagnosing
sarcoidosis. Respirology 2007;12(6):863-8.
Omori S, Takiguchi Y, Hiroshima K, Tanabe N, Tatsumi K, Kimura H, et al. Peripheral
pulmonary diseases: evaluation with endobronchial US initial experience. Radiology
2002;224(2):603-8.
Ovcharenko SI, Zavodnov VI, Kochanovskaia IV, Loginov LE, Morozova NV, Filippov VV, et
al. Endobronchial use of low-frequency ultrasound and ultraviolet laser radiation in the
complex treatment of patients with suppurative bronchial diseases. Probl Tuberk 1997(3):402.
Raphael DT, Lee H. Acoustic reflectometry detection of an endobronchial intubation in a
patient with equal breath sounds. J Clin Anesth 2003;15(1):41-7
Rosário F, Duro dCJ, Dionísio J, Mendonça E, Sobrinho L. Endobronchial ultrasound may
reveal the presence of previously undiagnosed thyroid carcinoma. Thyroid : official journal of
the American Thyroid Association 2006;16(5):515-6.
Sakairi Y, Yasufuku K, Iyoda A, Suzuki M, Nakajima T, Sekine Y, et al. A Solitary Metastatic
Lung Tumor from Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma Diagnosed by Endobronchial UltrasoundGuided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration EBUS-TBNA: Report of a Case. Surgery today
2008;38(1):46-8.
Shaw TJ, Wakely SL, Peebles CR, Mehta RL, Turner JM, Wilson SJ, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasound to assess airway wall thickening: validation in vitro and in vivo. The European
respiratory journal : official journal of the EuropeanSociety for Clinical Respiratory
Physiology 2004;23(6):813-7.
Shevchenko IL, Ablitsov IA, Loginov LE. Endobronchial use of low frequency ultrasound
power in the antibiotic therapy of pyo-inflammatory lung diseases. Probl Tuberk Bolezn Legk
2004(2):24-8.
Skov BG, Baandrup U, Jakobsen GK, Kiss K, Krasnik M, Rossen K, et al. Cytopathologic
diagnoses of fine-needle aspirations from endoscopic ultrasound of the mediastinum:
reproducibility of the diagnoses and representativeness of aspirates from lymph nodes.
Cancer 2007;111(4):234-41.
Stather DR, Field S, Khalil M, Michaud G, Tremblay A. ENDOBRONCHIAL
ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF SARCOIDOSIS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
OF A RANDOMIZED STUDY. Chest 2007;132(4):465-.
Vincent B, Huggins JT, Doelken P, Silvestri G. Successful real-time endobronchial
ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration of a hilar lung mass obtained by
traversing the pulmonary artery. Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of
theInternational Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2006;1(4):362-4.
Wakamatsu T, Tsushima K, Yasuo M, Yamazaki Y, Yoshikawa S, Koide N, et al. Usefulness
of preoperative endobronchial ultrasound for airway invasion around the trachea:
esophageal cancer and thyroid cancer. Respiration 2006;73(5):651-7.
Wallace WAH, Monaghan HM, Salter DM, Gibbons MA, Skwarski KM. Endobronchial
ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration and liquid- based thin-layer cytology. Journal of
clinical pathology 2007;60(4):388-91.
Wang KP. Is endobronchial ultrasound necessary for transbronchial lung biopsy in solitary
pulmonary nodule? Chest 2006;130(4):1277.
Wong M, Yasufuku K, Nakajima T, Herth FJ, Sekine Y, Shibuya K, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasound: new insight for the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Eur Respir J 2007;29(6):1182-6.
Yamanaka S, Sakurada A, Matsumura Y, Endo C, Sato M, Kondo T. A rare case of
hemangioma arising from the azygos vein: Informative procedure with endobronchial
ultrasonography. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2004;127(1):294-5.
Yamasaki A, Tomita K, Sano H, Watanabe M, Makino H, Kurai J, et al. Measuring
subepithelial thickness using endobronchial ultrasonography in a patient with asthma: a case
report. Lung 2003;181(3):115-20.
Yamada N, Yamazaki K, Kurimoto N, Asahina H, Kikuchi E, Shinagawa N, et al. Factors
related to diagnostic yield of transbronchial biopsy using endobronchial ultrasonography with
a guide sheath in small peripheral pulmonary lesions. Chest 2007;132(2):603-8.
Yasufuku K, Chhajed PN, Sekine Y, Nakajima T, Chiyo M, Iyoda A, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasound using a new convex probe: a preliminary study on surgically resected specimens.
Oncology reports 2004;11(2):293-6.
Not about mediastinal staging:
Aabakken L, Silvestri GA, Hawes R, Reed CE, Marsi V, Hoffman B. Cost-efficacy of
endoscopic ultrasonography with fine-needle aspiration vs mediastinotomy in patients with
lung cancer and suspected mediastinal adenopathy. Endoscopy 1999;31(9):707-11.
Adawi RL, Simoff M. Diagnostic Value of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Needle
Aspiration: A Single Center Experience, . Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society
2006:A540 [Publication Page: A540].
Al-Haddad M, Wallace MB. Molecular diagnostics of non-small cell lung cancer using
mediastinal lymph nodes sampled by endoscopic ultrasound-guided needle aspiration.
Cytopathology : official journal of the British Society for ClinicalCytology 2006;17(1):3-9.
Annema J, Veselic M, Rabe K. Feasibility, yield and impact of ambulatory ebus-TBna for the
diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. European Respiratory Journal 2007:Abstract 2672.
Baba M, Sekine Y, Suzuki M, Yoshida S, Shibuya K, Iizasa T, et al. Correlation between
endobronchial ultrasonography EBUS images and histologic findings in normal and tumorinvaded bronchial wall. Lung cancer (Amsterdam Netherlands) 2002;35(1):65-71.
Becker H, D., Herth F, Mueller K. Endobronchial ultrasound for detection of early cancer.
Lung cancer, 2000: 29 (9 Suppl 1) S244.
Callister MEJ, Gill A, Plant PK. Implications of endobronchial ultrasound-guided
transbronchial needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph nodes for staging lung cancer: a cost
and time-to-treatment projected analysis. Thorax 2007;62(Supplement 3):39
Chao TY, Lie CH, Chung YH, Wang JL, Wang YH, Lin MC. Differentiating peripheral
pulmonary lesions based on images of endobronchial ultrasonography. Chest
2006;130(4):1191-7.
Chao TY, Lin AS, Lie CH, Chung YH, Lin JW, Lin MC. Bronchial epithelial-myoepithelial
carcinoma. The Annals of thoracic surgery 2007;83(2):689-91.
Chih-Hsia K, Shu-Min L, Han-Pin K. High usefulness of endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) in
diagnosis of peripheral lung malignancy with three echoic patterns. European Respiratory
Journal 2006:Abstract 3092.
Chung YH, Lie CH, Chao TY, Wang YH, Lin AS, Wang JL, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasonography with distance for peripheral pulmonary lesions. Respiratory medicine,
2007:738-45.
Dooms CA, Verbeken EK, Becker HD, Demedts MG, Vansteenkiste JF. Endobronchial
ultrasonography in bronchoscopic occult pulmonary lesions. Journal of thoracic oncology :
official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
2007;2(2):121-4.
Eberhardt R, Anantham D, Ernst A, Feller KD, Herth F. Multimodality bronchoscopic
diagnosis of peripheral lung lesions: a randomized controlled trial. American journal of
respiratory and critical care medicine 2007;176(1):36-41.
Eberhardt R, Ernst A, Anantham D, Herth FJF. Multimodality bronchoscopic diagnosis of
peripheral lung lesions: a randomized controlled trial. European Respiratory Journal
2007:Abstract 2671.
Eberhardt W, Thomas M, Stuschke M, Griesinger F, Stamatis G. Multimodal treatment for
operable, locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Onkologe 2006;12(8):746-752.
Endo C. Endobronchial ultrasonography EBUS for evaluation of the depth of invasion of
central type early lung cancer. Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery
2007;60(8 Suppl):718-23.
Falcone F, Fois F, Grosso D. Real time endobronchial ultrasound (real time EBUS) can
improve the predictivity of negative transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) for surgical
treatment decision in lung cancer? European Respiratory Journal 2006:Abstract P3482.
Fernández VA, Iglesias F, Mosteiro M, Corbacho D, González A, Blanco P, et al.
Transbronchial needle aspiration of diseased mediastinal lymph nodes: Predictors of positive
findings. Archivos de bronconeumología 2005;41(8):434-438.
Galluccio G, Lucantoni G. Mediastinal bronchogenic cyst's recurrence treated with EBUSFNA with a long-term follow-up. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;29(4):627-9; discussion 629.
Hansra IK, Ernst A. Bronchoscopic-directed diagnosis of peripheral lung lesions suspicious
for cancer. Thoracic surgery clinics 2007;17(2):159-65.
Herth FFJ, Ernst A, Becker HD. Initial EBUS guided TBNA is the most cost effective means
of lymph node staging - a German experience [Abstract]. European Respiratory Journal,
2003.
Herth FJ. Mediastinal staging--the role of endobronchial and endo-oesophageaL
sonographic guided needle aspiration. Lung Cancer 2004;45 Suppl 2:S63-7.
Herth FJF, Eberhardt R, Krasnik M, Ernst A. Endobronchial ultrasound guided lymph node
biopsy with miniforceps in the mediastinum. 2006:Abstract 3095.
Herth FJ, Eberhardt R, Becker HD, Ernst A. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial
lung biopsy in fluoroscopically invisible solitary pulmonary nodules: a prospective trial. Chest
2006;129(1):147-50.
Herth FJF, Ernst A. Innovative bronchoscopic diagnostic techniques: endobronchial
ultrasound and electromagnetic navigation. Current opinion in pulmonary medicine
2005;11(4):278-81.
Herth FJF, Ernst A, Becker HD. Conventional vs endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)-guided
transbronchial needle aspiartion (TBNA) - a randomised trial [Abstract ]. European
Respiratory Journal, 2003.
Herth FJF. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided biopsy of coin lesions. Future oncology
(London England) 2007;3(3):273-5.
Herth FJ, Becker HD, Ernst A. Ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration: an
experience in 242 patients. Chest 2003;123(2):604-7.
Herth F, Ernst A, Schulz M, Becker H. Endobronchial ultrasound reliably differentiates
between airway infiltration and compression by tumor. Chest 2003;123(2):458-62.
Herth FJF, Ernst A, Becker HD. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial lung biopsy
in solitary pulmonary nodules and peripheral lesions. The European respiratory journal :
official journal of the EuropeanSociety for Clinical Respiratory Physiology 2002;20(4):972-4.
Herth F, Eberhardt R, Mulay T, Anantham D, Ernst A. Resistance index through EBUS in
enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes correlates with malignancy involvement. Chest
2007;132(4):465c-466.
Ikeda N, Hayashi A, Iwasaki K, Honda H, Tsuboi M, Usuda J, et al. Comprehensive
diagnostic bronchoscopy of central type early stage lung cancer. Lung cancer (Amsterdam
Netherlands) 2007;56(3):295-302.
Kikuchi E, Yamazaki K, Sukoh N, Kikuchi J, Asahina H, Imura M, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasonography with guide-sheath for peripheral pulmonary lesions. The European
respiratory journal : official journal of the EuropeanSociety for Clinical Respiratory
Physiology 2004;24(4):533-7.
Krasnik M, Skov B, Eberhardt R, Herth F. Success of EBUS TBNA in centrally located lung
tumours after non-diagnostic bronchoscopy in patients with suspected lung cancer.
European Respiratory Journal Meeting 2007:Abstract 212.
Krasnik M, Vilmann P, Larsen SS, Jacobsen GK. Preliminary experience with a new method
of endoscopic transbronchial real time ultrasound guided biopsy for diagnosis of mediastinal
and hilar lesions. Thorax 2003;58(12):1083-6.
Krasnik M, Vilmann P, Skov BG, Herth F. EBUS TBNA in diagnosing hillar and mediastinal
lesions. Chest 2005;128(4):327S-b-.
Kuo CH, Lin SM, Chen HC, Chou CL, Yu CT, Kuo HP. Diagnosis of peripheral lung cancer
with three echoic features via endobronchial ultrasound. Chest 2007;132(3):922-9.
Kurimoto N, Hayashi K, Murayama M, Nishisaka T. Endobronchial ultrasonography for lung
cancer. Nippon Geka Gakkai zasshi 1999;100(11):724-8.
Kurimoto N, Murayama M, Yoshioka S, Nishisaka T, Inai K, Dohi K. Assessment of
usefulness of endobronchial ultrasonography in determination of depth of tracheobronchial
tumor invasion. Chest 1999;115(6):1500-6.
Kurimoto N, Osada H, Miyazawa T, Miyazu Y, Ishida A. Which area in a metastatic lymph
node of lung cancer should we puncture by endobronchial ulrasonography guided
transbronchial needle aspiration? Chest 2005;128(4):323S-c-324.
Kurimoto N. Endobronchial ultrasonography for diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary lesions.
Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery 2007;60(8 Suppl):724-33.
Kurimoto N, Miyazawa T, Okimasa S, Maeda A, Oiwa H, Miyazu Y, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasonography using a guide sheath increases the ability to diagnose peripheral pulmonary
lesions endoscopically. Chest 2004;126(3):959-65.
Lee HS, Lee GK, Zo JI, Hwangbo B. Real-Time Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided
Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) in Mediastinal Staging of NSCLC: How
Many Aspirates Per Target Lymph Node?: Preliminary Report. American journal of
respiratory and critical care medicine 2007:A619 [Board #G42].
Lee P, Kyung JR, Phua GC, Koh M. Impact of TBNA Training on Yield Compared with EBUS
Guided Aspiration. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society 2006: A540 [Board #906].
Marin-Tapia A, Cuellar P, Andreo F, Llatjos M, Castella E, Vila P, et al. Endobronchial
Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer. Proceedings of the American
Thoracic Society 2006: A 607 [Board #H29]
Miyazu Y, Miyazawa T, Kurimoto N, Iwamoto Y, Kanoh K, Kohno N. Endobronchial
ultrasonography in the assessment of centrally located early-stage lung cancer before
photodynamic therapy. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
2002;165(6):832-7.
Monsó E, Andreo F, Rosell A, Cuellar P, Castellà E, Llatjós M. Usefulness of endobronchial
ultrasonography with real-time needle aspiration for lung cancer staging. Medicina clínica
2007;128(13):481-5.
Nakajima T, Yasufuku K, Suzuki M, Hiroshima K, Kubo R, Mohammed S, et al. Assessment
of epidermal growth factor receptor mutation by endobronchial ultrasound-guided
transbronchial needle aspiration. Chest 2007;132(2):597-602.
Nakajima T, Yasufuku K, Suzuki M, Mohamed S, Sekine Y, Shibuya K, et al.
Chemosensitivity-related aberrant methylation profiling of non-small cell lunch cancer by
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration. Chest 2007;132(4):466a.
Nakamura Y, Endo C, Sato M, Sakurada A, Watanabe S, Sakata R, et al. A new technique
for endobronchial ultrasonography and comparison of two ultrasonic probes: analysis with a
plot profile of the image analysis software NIH Image. Chest 2004;126(1):192-7.
Niklinski J, Niklinska W, Chyczewski L, Becker HD, Pluygers E. Molecular genetic
abnormalities in premalignant lung lesions: biological and clinical implications. European
journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of theEuropean Cancer Prevention
Organisation (ECP) 2001;10(3):213-26.
Okimasa S, Yoshioka S, Shibata S, Awaya Y, Nagao Y, Murakami I, et al. Endobronchial
ultrasonography with a guide-sheath and virtual bronchoscopy navigation aids management
of peripheral pulmonary nodules. Hiroshima journal of medical sciences 2007;56(1-2):19-22.
Pierard PE, Plat G, Faber J, Prigogine T, Ninane V. Assessment of positron emission
tomography positive lymph nodes: ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration of
mediastinoscopy? Chest 2005;128(4):324S-.
Paone G, Nicastri E, Lucantoni G, Dello Iacono R, Battistoni P, D'Angeli AL, et al.
Endobronchial ultrasound-driven biopsy in the diagnosis of peripheral lung lesions. Chest
2005;128(5):3551-7.
Seok Lee H, Kook Lee G, Lee HS, Soo Kim M, Mog Lee J, Young Kim H, et al. Real-time
Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in Mediastinal Staging
of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: How many aspirations per target lymph node station? Chest
2008; 134(2):368-74
Shiu KK, Eberhardt R, Herth FJ. Comparison of 22-guage and 19-guage needles in
endobronchial ultrasound (ABUS) transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) in mediastinum
lymph node assessment. Chest 2007;132(4):465b-.
Shirakawa T, Imamura F, Hamamoto J, Honda I, Fukushima K, Sugimoto M, et al.
Usefulness of endobronchial ultrasonography for transbronchial lung biopsies of peripheral
lung lesions. Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases, 2004:260-8.
Vilmann P, Krasnik M, Larsen SS, Jacobsen GK, Clementsen P. Transesophageal
endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration EUS-FNA and endobronchial
ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration EBUS-TBNA biopsy: a combined
approach in the evaluation of mediastinal lesions. Endoscopy 2005;37(9):833-9.
Yang MC, Liu WT, Wang CH, Lin HC, Chen HC, Chou CL, et al. Diagnostic value of
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial lung biopsy in peripheral lung cancers.
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi 2004;103(2):124-9.
Yasufuku K, Nakajima T, Fujiwara T, Chiyo M, Iyoda A, Yoshida S, et al. Utility of
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in the diagnosis of
mediastinal masses of unknown origin. Chest 2007;132(4):465a-.
Yoshikawa M, Sukoh N, Yamazaki K, Kanazawa K, Fukumoto S, Harada M, et al. Diagnostic
value of endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath for peripheral pulmonary lesions
without X-ray fluoroscopy. Chest 2007;131(6):1788-93.