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    MA13 - Interventional Pulmonology (ID 914)

    • Event: WCLC 2018
    • Type: Mini Oral Abstract Session
    • Track: Interventional Diagnostics/Pulmonology
    • Presentations: 1
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    • Coordinates: 9/25/2018, 10:30 - 12:00, Room 206 AC
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      MA13.07 - Diagnostic Yield of N3 Hilar Staging by Endobronchial Ultrasonography (EBUS) in Lung Cancer (ID 12565)

      11:10 - 11:15  |  Author(s): Guillermo Rodriguez Gonzalez

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      Background

      Systematic lung cancer staging with EBUS has proven to be equivalent to cervical mediastinoscopy. Nevertheless, in the daily practice it is common to explore and sample negative PET-CT hilar N3 lymph nodes (LN). This study aims to explore if there is enough evidence to support this clinical practice.

      a9ded1e5ce5d75814730bb4caaf49419 Method

      Retrospective study from our database including 1,013 explorations over the last 5 years. Including criteria were patients with lung cancer staged by PET-CT and EBUS-TBNA. Mediastinal and hilar N3 LN with a short axis ≥ 5 mm were sampled with a 21G needle and assessed by rapid on site evaluation (ROSE). A single nuclear medicine expert reviewed blindly all PET-CT scans and determined the SUVmax of every LN. Those that were ≥ 5 SUVmax by PET-CT and/or ≥ 10mm in short axis by EBUS were considered abnormal.

      4c3880bb027f159e801041b1021e88e8 Result

      87 patients were included, of which 87% were male with a mean age of 66 years (SD 12.6). The final histopathology diagnoses were adenocarcinoma (46%), squamous cell carcinoma (39%) and other histology (14%). EBUS-TBNA was performed 30 days (SD 16.9) after PET-CT. None of the 61 normal hilar and normal mediastinum N3 LN, and none of the 7 normal N3 hilar LN with abnormal mediastinal LN (3 by PET-CT, 3 by EBUS and 1 for both) resulted positive for lung cancer. Of the 19 patients with abnormal N3 hilar LN (6 by PET-CT, 8 by EBUS and 6 for both) malignancy was found in 16.7% , 25% and 60% for both techniques, respectively.ryywawmo--450186-1-any.png

      8eea62084ca7e541d918e823422bd82e Conclusion

      In absence of abnormal N3 hilar LN (PET: SUVmax<5; EBUS<10mm in short axis) it seems there is not enough evidence to sample them, regardless of N3 mediastinal status.

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