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From the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Correspondence to: Takehiko Fujisawa, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; e-mail: fujisawat{at}faculty.chiba-u.jp
Study objectives: Although various techniques are available for obtaining pathology specimens from the mediastinal lymph nodes, including conventional bronchoscopic transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA), transesophageal ultrasonography-guided needle aspiration, and mediastinoscopy, there are limitations to these techniques, which include low yield, poor access, need for general anesthesia, or complications. To overcome these problems, we undertook the current study to evaluate the clinical utility of the newly developed ultrasound puncture bronchoscope to visualize and perform real-time TBNA of the mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes under direct endobronchial ultrasonography (EBUS) guidance.
Design: Prospective patient enrollment.
Setting: University teaching hospital.
Patients: From March 2002 to September 2003, 70 patients were included in the study.
Interventions: The new convex probe (CP) EBUS is integrated with a convex scanning probe on its tip with a separate working channel, thus permitting real-time EBUS-guided TBNA. The indications for CP-EBUS were the diagnosis of mediastinal and/or hilar lymphadenopathy for known or suspected malignancy. Lymph nodes and the surrounding vessels were first visualized with CP-EBUS using the Doppler mode. The dimensions of the lymph nodes were recorded, followed by real-time TBNA under direct EBUS guidance. Final diagnosis was based on cytology, surgical results, and/or clinical follow-up.
Results: All lymph nodes that were detected on the chest CT scan could be visualized using CP-EBUS. In 70 patients, CP-EBUS-guided TBNA was performed to obtain samples from mediastinal lymph nodes (58 nodes) and hilar lymph nodes (12 nodes). The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of CP-EBUS-guided TBNA in distinguishing benign from malignant lymph nodes were 95.7%, 100%, and 97.1%, respectively. The procedure was uneventful, and there were no complications.
Conclusions: Real-time CP-EBUS-guided TBNA of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes is a novel approach that is safe and has a good diagnostic yield. This new ultrasound puncture bronchoscope has an excellent potential for assisting in safe and accurate diagnostic interventional bronchoscopy.
Key Words: bronchoscopy • endobronchial ultrasound • lung cancer • lymph node metastasis • staging • transbronchial needle aspiration
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