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Volume 19 |Article ID 860345 | 2 pages | https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/860345

Mucosal Airway Laceration Secondary To Endobronchial Ultrasonography

Amarinder Sandhu,1 Edmundo Rubio,1 Susanti Ie,1 and Michael Boyd 1

1Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Environmental and Sleep Medicine, Carilion Clinic, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, Virginia, USA

Abstract

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration is becoming the standard of care for mediastinal sampling to diagnose and stage lung cancer. It is considered to be safe and rivals the gold standard, mediastinoscopy, in safety and accuracy. The present article describes a mucosal airway laceration and pneumothorax associated with the procedure.

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