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Accidental breakage of needle tip during endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration: A case report and review of literature.
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- Scoping out sarcoidosis: the evolving role of bronchoscopy.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026Review
- EBUS-TBNA needles: A path to affordable safety.Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest Society · 2025Article
- Complications of linear endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsies: narrative review.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2025Review
- Minimally Invasive Sampling of Mediastinal Lesions.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Pyopericardium and extensive mediastinal abscess following EBUS-TBNA for mediastinal staging of NSCLC: a case report.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2023Article
- Broken Needle Embedded in the Body during Vascular Puncture.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is commonly recommended for the diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy with malignant and nonmalignant etiology. EBUS-TBNA has been preferred over mediastinoscopy because of several advantages such as comparable diagnostic accuracy, safety, cost-effectiveness, and less invasiveness. Hemorrhage, mediastinitis, pneumonia, mediastinal abscess, empyema, lung abscess, pericarditis, and pneumothorax have been reported as major complications of EBUS-TBNA. Equipment malfunction has been observed mostly in the form of breakage of EBUS scope parts such as working channel, optical fibers, and ultrasound probe. Needle malfunction either involving assembly leading to inability to retract the needle within the sheath or accidental breakage of the needle tip has also been reported but the evidence is still limited. We encountered an accidental breakage of needle tip while performing EBUS-TBNA procedure in a 58-year-old male having subcarinal lymphadenopathy suspected to have lung cancer. We were able to successfully retrieve the broken fragment bronchoscopically without any complications.
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