The sonographic features of malignant mediastinal lymph nodes and a proposal for an algorithmic approach for sampling during endobronchial ultrasound

Introduction There are several papers on the sonographic features of mediastinal lymph nodes affected by several diseases, but none gives the importance and clinical utility of the features. Objective In order to find out which lymph node should be sampled in a particular nodal station during endobronchial ultrasound, we investigated the diagnostic performances of certain sonographic features and proposed an algorithmic approach. Methods We...