Yasuhiro Tanaka, Takashi Kido, Noriho Sakamoto, Atsuko Hara, Takeharu Kato, Ritsuko Miyashita, Mutsumi Ozasa, Takatomo Tokito, Daisuke Okuno, Kazuaki Takeda, Hirokazu Yura, Shinnosuke Takemoto, Takahiro Takazono, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Yasushi Obase, Yuji Ishimatsu, Yasushi Miyazaki, Hiroshi Mukae
The diagnosis of pulmonary lymphoma using small tissue samples is difficult and often requires surgical procedures; thus, a less invasive sampling method is desirable. Moreover, pulmonary involvement in adult T-cell lymphoma (ATL) is often difficult to diagnose, especially in cases without characteristic flower cells. Here, we present the case of a 78-year-old man, in whom pathological examination of the transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) specimen did not reveal malignant findings; therefore, transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) in combination with endobronchial ultrasonography (EBUS) was used to diagnose ATL based on the pathological findings...
November 16, 2023: Medicina