Metastatic mediastinal lymph node from an unidentified primary papillary thyroid carcinoma diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1293-1296

  Chow, Anson ^a,b   Oki, Masahide ^a   Saka, Hideo ^a   Moritani, Suzuko ^a   Usami, Noriyasu ^c  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGOYA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Tang Shiu Kin Hospital   (Hong Kong)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endobronchial ultrasound; Mediastinal lymph node; Metastasis; Thyroid carcinoma; Transbronchial needle aspiration

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349548544     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2212     Document Type: Article

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