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Histological diagnosis of spinal chondrosarcoma by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration.

Nakajima T, Yasufuku K, Suzuki M, Sekine Y, Shibuya K, Hiroshima K, Fujisawa T

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

Rare neoplastic diseases including sarcomas can occur in the middle mediastinum. Obtaining a histological specimen is crucial for diagnosis and for establishing a treatment plan. Our research group has recently reported a minimal invasive method of tissue sampling of the mediastinum using direct real-time endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration. By the use of this new modality, histological cores can be obtained for pathological diagnosis that can be used for immunohistochemistry as well as genetic analysis. A very rare case of spinal chondrosarcoma due to hereditary multiple exostoses successfully diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration and by immunohistochemistry with genetic analysis is reported.

Published 14 February 2007 in Respirology, 12(2): 308-10.
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