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The use of endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EBUS-FNA) in the diagnosis of lymphatic cryptococcosis
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  1. Karim El-Kersh1,
  2. Udit Chaddha2,
  3. Rodrigo Cavallazzi1,
  4. Mohamed Saad1
  1. 1Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Karim El-Kersh, karimelkersh{at}yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2014-207005

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    Endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EBUS-FNA) is a minimally invasive technique that allows cytological and histological examination of the tissue sampled from mediastinal lymph nodes under real-time ultrasound guidance. EBUS-FNA has emerged as an important diagnostic modality with high diagnostic yield in malignant diseases. Recently, EBUS-FNA proved to be a useful diagnostic tool for non-malignant mediastinal lymphadenopathy such as in sarcoidosis. There are emerging reports of using EBUS-FNA in the diagnosis of infectious mediastinal lymphadenopathy such as in tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, …

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