Fantin A, Castaldo N, Seides B, Majori M. Pulmonary Embolism as a Finding During Endobronchial Ultrasound: An Occasional Occurrence or a New Element to Be Staged?
Cureus 2021;
13:e20137. [PMID:
34984159 PMCID:
PMC8720493 DOI:
10.7759/cureus.20137]
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Abstract
In this report, we describe two cases of lung cancer-related pulmonary embolism (PE), both encountered while performing an endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS). We propose EBUS as a diagnostic and confirmatory method for PE detection during the staging of lung cancer.
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