I agree that incidence is low, but estimates for radiographically occult nodal disease range from 10-20% and the fact is there isn't great literature on this. A PET scan is a decent test, better than a regular CT, but there are still a significant minority of patients that are mis-staged when an EBU...
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at Respiratory Center Of North Houston Pa I appreciate the input regarding EBUS and the CPT ...
at Washington State University Floyd College of Medicine Dr. @Kapp, thanks very much for your answer and fo...
Medical Oncologist at Clinical Instructor A recent study that Dr. @Balazs Halmos pointed out...
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We all want to know whether our patients with apparent stage I NSCLC have metastatic disease or not. That's because it determines whether to add systemic therapy on top of local therapy (surgery or SBRT or even thermal ablation). The elephant in the room is whether the discovery of a metastatic phen...
Great question. Very controversial. What you try to avoid is having a surgeon resect a nodule and then discover upstaging on surgery. We are leaning more toward performing EBUS prior to surgical resections. We know that a segmentectomy works for most stages 1 but if it becomes a stage 2 this is no l...
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at Respiratory Center Of North Houston Pa Thank you for your response.
What is the CPT code...
at Corewell Health I would love to know this one as I just did one. W...
at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Re: the EBUS billing question - no, 31654 is speci...
at E Town Lung Specialists Psc Yes, I will do EBUS and evaluate the lymph nodes b...
at NYU Langone Medical Center Dr. @Annamaneni is spot on his response but the ev...
at Washington State University Floyd College of Medicine When a lung cancer in a nodule is PET-positive, wh...
I appreciate the input regarding EBUS and the CPT ...
Dr. @Kapp, thanks very much for your answer and fo...
A recent study that Dr. @Balazs Halmos pointed out...