TY - JOUR T1 - Complete endosonographic staging of lung cancer JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 675 LP - 675 DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204906 VL - 69 IS - 7 AU - Jouke T Annema Y1 - 2014/07/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/69/7/675.1.abstract N2 - With great interest, I read the article by Kang and colleagues in which they performed a randomised comparison between EBUS-centred versus EUS-centred mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer.1 As expected, no difference in diagnostic values between the two groups was found. A minimal diagnostic gain of the addition of EUS to EBUS was reported in contrast to a significant diagnostic benefit of the addition of EBUS to EUS. Strikingly, there was a high false-negative rate of EUS regarding the subcarinal station 7—a … ER -