Endobronchial ultrasound and esophageal ultrasound: just because we can, does not necessarily mean we should

Chest. 2011 Jul;140(1):271-272. doi: 10.1378/chest.11-0171.

Authors

Ko Pen Wang¹, David Feller-Kopman², Atul Mehta³, Malay Sharma⁴, Lonny Yarmus²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Interventional Pulmonology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Interventional Pulmonology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
³ Department of Pulmonology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Uttar Pradesh, India.

PMID: 21729906
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-0171

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Biopsy / methods
Bronchi / diagnostic imaging*
Bronchoscopy / methods*
Diagnosis, Differential
Endosonography*
Esophagus / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Neoplasm Staging / methods*
Reproducibility of Results