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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Division of Thoracic Surgery, Yale University, FMB 128, 330 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06520-8062

(Email: frank.detterbeck@yale.edu).

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In recent years there has been a flurry of articles extolling the utility of the new technology of endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) that allows real-time guidance during transbronchial needle aspirations (TBNA) of mediastinal nodes. Interest in EBUS is fueled by the overwhelming momentum to adopt new technologies and because a large number of chest physicians never learned to be proficient at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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