Maud Veselic

TL;DR: Among patients with (suspected) NSCLC, a staging strategy combining endosonography and surgical staging compared with surgical staging alone resulted in greater sensitivity for mediastinal nodal metastases and fewer unnecessary thoracotomies.

TL;DR: EUS-FNA qualifies as the initial staging procedure of choice for patients with (suspected) lung cancer and enlarged mediastinal LNs and implementation of EUS -guided fine-needle aspiration in staging algorithms for lung cancer might reduce the number of surgical staging procedures considerably.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that these standard molecular techniques can be accurately applied on fine needle cytological aspirates from NSCLC patients and show that all mutations detected in the histological material of primary tumor were also identified in the cytological samples.

TL;DR: Preliminary findings suggest that EUS-FNA, when added to mediastinoscopy, improves the preoperative staging of lung cancer due to the complementary reach of EUS -FNA in detecting mediastinal lymph node metastases and the ability to assess mediastsinal tumor invasion.

TL;DR: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration has a high yield in diagnosing sarcoidosis and qualifies as the next diagnostic step after a nondiagnostic bronchoscopy and is expected to reduce the number of mediastinoscopies for the diagnosis of sarcoIDosis dramatically.