EBUS-TBNA: a never ending story

Oral Presentation
Chairs: J. Annema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), L. Konge (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Rapid on-site cytologic evaluation during endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for diagnosing lung cancer: A randomized study M. Oki, H. Saka, C. Kitagawa, Y. Kogure, N. Murata, M. Ryuge, T. Adachi, S. Oka, R. Tsuboi, M. Ando (Nagoya, Kyoto, Japan)
A way to optimize efficiency of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA): Evaluation of the aspiration on site by a non-pathologist – Results on a monocentric study about 98 procedures I. Rault, F. Le Meunier, C. Hybiak, H. Bentayeb, M. Boutemy, E. Lecuyer, R. Suguenot, P. Dumon, F. Amirats, C. Andrejak, V. Jounieaux, S. Carton, Y. Douadi, C. Dayen (Saint Quentin, Amiens, France)
Role of molecular and cellular techniques applied to EBUS-TBNA of mediastinal lymph nodes for lung cancer staging A. Bugalho, G. Nunes, M. Correia, C. Martins, S.S. Dias, P.A. Videira, M.J. Marques Gomes (Lisbon, Loures, Portugal)
Endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsy followed by real-time PCR is an applicable method to analyse SHOX2 methylation level in mediastinal lymph nodes of lung cancer patients K. Bähner, L. Freitag, C. Ivascu, D. Theegarten, J. Wohlschläger, R. Imsak, K. Darwiche (Germany)
Initial experience in endobronchial and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration in the same procedure S. de la Torre Carazo, R. García-Luján, R. Alonso Moralejo, A. Gómez López, B. Arias Arcos, N. Alberti, E. de Miguel Poch (Madrid, Spain)
Endobronchial ultrasound-guided sampling can be used for successful molecular sampling in routine clinical practice L. Castle, T. Nakajima, M. Cypel, M. de Perrot, A. Pierre, G. Darling, T. Waddell, S. Keshavjee, G. Santos, S. Boerner, W. Geddes, K. Yasufuku (Toronto, Canada)
Combined ultrasound-guided needle aspiration in restaging of the non-small-cell lung cancer – A three years experience A. Szlubowski, S. Orzechowski, J. Soja, J. Pankowski, A. Obrochta, M. Jakubiak, W. Czajkowski, M. Zielinski (Zakopane, Krakow, Poland)
Combined endosonographic staging followed by cervical mediastinoscopy in the real world, do we still need both? E.H.F.M. van der Heijden, A.F.T.M. Verhagen, O.C.J. Schuurbiers (Nijmegen, Netherlands)