EBUS-guided lymph node sampling (tissue for histology)

EBUS-guided lymph node sampling

tests per year, US, once, when tissue sampling is needed for diagnosis

“For patients with suspected sarcoidosis and mediastinal and/or hilar lymphadenopathy for whom it has been determined that tissue sampling is necessary, we suggest endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)-guided lymph node sampling, rather than mediastinoscopy, as the initial mediastinal and/or hilar lymph node sampling procedure”

Crouser et al., Diagnosis and Detection of Sarcoidosis: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2020, 2020-04

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Clinical guideline

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2026-11-06

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Diagnosis rests on finding nonnecrotizing granulomas in tissue; not done where suspicion is very high (for example Lofgren's syndrome).

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