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Chest, Vol 100, 726-728, Copyright © 1991 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Needle aspiration of extrathoracic metastases from bronchogenic carcinoma

HP Liss
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.

Five patients with suspected metastatic bronchogenic carcinoma underwent needle aspiration of peripheral metastatic lesions instead of a diagnostic bronchoscopy. Aspirates were from the soft tissue of the proximal arm (three patients), an axillary mass (one patient), and a skin nodule (one patient). Two patients had non-small cell carcinoma, two had small cell carcinoma, and one patient had a nondiagnostic aspirate. The procedure had insignificant morbidity, was easy to perform, quickly established a diagnosis of metastatic disease, and obviated the need for a more invasive diagnostic procedure in four of the five patients.




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