Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with cardiac invasion diagnosed using transesophageal ultrasound-guided bronchoscopic aspiration

Daiki Nagayama; Toshiyuki Sumi; Yoshiko Keira; Yusuke Tanaka; Haruhiko Michimata; Yuta Koshino; Hiroki Watanabe; Yuichi Yamada; Hirofumi Chiba

doi:10.1002/rcr2.1022

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with cardiac invasion diagnosed using transesophageal ultrasound-guided bronchoscopic aspiration

Respirol Case Rep. 2022 Aug 15;10(9):e01022. doi: 10.1002/rcr2.1022. eCollection 2022 Sep.

Authors

Daiki Nagayama^{1

2}, Toshiyuki Sumi^{1

2}, Yoshiko Keira³, Yusuke Tanaka², Haruhiko Michimata^{1

2}, Yuta Koshino^{1

2}, Hiroki Watanabe¹, Yuichi Yamada¹, Hirofumi Chiba²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine Hakodate Goryoukaku Hospital Hokkaido Japan.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine Sapporo Japan.
³ Department of Surgical Pathology Hakodate Goryoukaku Hospital Hokkaido Japan.

Abstract

Transesophageal ultrasound-guided bronchoscopic aspiration (EUS-B-FNA) allowed for minimally invasive and simultaneous diagnosis and evaluation of the degree of invasion by echocardiography. EUS-B-FNA may be useful for the evaluation and diagnosis of tumours with cardiac invasion.

Keywords: DLBCL; EUS‐B‐FNA; cardiac invasion; mediastinal tumour; transesophageal approach.