Laurence Crombag

TL;DR: This is an official guideline of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, produced in cooperation with the European Respiratory Society, and addresses the benefit and burden associated with combined endobronchial and esophageal mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer.

TL;DR: New guidelines for combined endobronchial and oesophageal mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer are published in The Lancet Oncology.

TL;DR: The combined use of EBUS and EUS significantly improves sensitivity in detecting mediastinal nodal metastases, reducing the need for surgical staging procedures.

TL;DR: In lung cancer patients, a systematic endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) evaluation combined with an oesophageal investigation using the same EBUS bronchoscope (EUS-B) increases the sensitivity for mediastinal nodal staging by 9% compared to a targeted EBUS procedure.

TL;DR: Investigation of the success rate of endoscopic ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration using the EBUS scope (EUS-B-FNA) for LAG analysis shows a similar high success rate in comparison to conventional EUS, likely to reduce patient-burden and costs.