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Combined use of transoesophageal and transbronchial ultrasonography may lead to fewer unnecessary thoracotomies while staging NSCLC
  1. Samrat Bose
  1. Correspondence to Samrat Bose, ST3 Respiratory Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK; samrat.resp{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200111

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    This study investigated the use of endosonography versus surgical staging in non-small cell lung cancer. Patients in the endosonography arm underwent transbronchial and transoesophageal ultrasonography to detect mediastinal involvement followed by surgical staging if no nodal involvement was found.

    Two hundred and forty-one patients were …

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