Endobronchial ultrasound - The latest technology for biopsy of the lymph nodes

The endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) is the latest technology used to biopsy the lymph nodes. The mediastinal lymphadenopathy is a situation that needs investigating. It may be due to an infection or a benign disease such as sarcoidosis or malignancy as lymphoma or lung cancer. You may also be metastasis from other organs such as the gastrointestinal, breast, bladder and other organs. After obtaining material from lymph nodes or the immunohistochemistry and other laboratory methods will give the final answer. Until now the main method of biopsy was making surgery the mesaflioskopisis. The endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) is used for the staging as suffering from non-small cell lung cancer and can probably make therapeutic surgery. Today and within half an hour has been biopsy of mediastinal lymph nodes and the patient can return home. The diagnosis of malignancy in the mediastinum can be done in various ways, as important as selecting the right method, equally important is the processing of the material. Not enough to have a sufficient amount of material and make the proper laboratory processing of the material. O molecular control of the material is no longer necessary today in many tumors to investigate what will be the right treatment. Other malignancy diagnosis techniques chest is bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy when there is pleural effusion. Many times after the diagnostic thoracoscopy and pleurodesis is not to create again malignant pleural effusion. In any indents is only the expert interventional pulmonologist can kathodigisi what the right technique and inform the patient.