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Adequacy of lymph node transbronchial needle aspirates using convex probe endobronchial ultrasound for multiple tumor genotyping techniques in non-small-cell lung cancer.
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - 1 Nov 2013
Folch Erik, Yamaguchi Norihiro, VanderLaan Paul A, Kocher Olivier N, Boucher David H, Goldstein Michael A, Huberman Mark S, Kent Michael S, Gangadharan Sidharta P, Costa Daniel B, Majid Adnan
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Adequate tumor acquisition is essential to identify somatic molecular alterations in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), such as epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) translocations. The success and failure rates for tumor genotyping of tissue obtained from fine-needle aspirates of nodal tissue using a convex probe endobronchial ultrasound (CP-EBUS)...
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