Interventional Ultrasound in Chest Diseases: Indications and Limits
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
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2. Associate Professor in Diagnostic and Interventional Lung Ultrasound at the Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery and the Postgraduate School of Respiratory Disease, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Interests: diagnostics (i.e., head and neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, lung, musculoskeletal ultrasound scans); interventional ultrasound-guided procedures (i.e., biopsies, thoracentesis, pleural and peritoneal drainage, echo-guided radiofrequency ablation of liver and lung malignancies)
2. Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Policlinico Universitario “Riuniti” di Foggia, 71122 Foggia, Italy
Interests: interventional bronchoscopic procedures (i.e., endobronchial biopsy, transbronchial needle aspiration, endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration, cryobiopsy); diagnosis and management of interstitial lung diseases; sleep respiratory disorders and pulmonary hypertension and cancer biology; biomarkers and diagnosis
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Dear Colleagues,
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a real-time, easily available, non-invasive, and radiation-free imaging modality that has been widely utilized in the complementary diagnosis of several pleuropulmonary disorders. More specifically, transthoracic ultrasound (TUS) is the method of choice for the assessment of pleural effusion (as even small quantities of liquid can be detected) and is of high diagnostic utility in the detection of—despite not characterizing—small pleuro-pulmonary lesions adhering to 70% of the echographically visible pleural surface and other pathologies involving the chest wall. A fundamental role for TUS has been established as a guide for thoracentesis and percutaneous needle biopsy for chest wall, pleural, and subpleural lesions. In addition, endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) allows obtaining samples from targeted lymph nodes via the transbronchial route. This Special Issue will focus on the role of LUS during routine evaluation and its new interventional uses in the diagnosis and management of chest diseases. In particular, intraoperatory lung ultrasound (ILU) is a new complementary technique that deserves to be developed in light of its ability to effectively localize, in real-time, invisible or non-palpable pulmonary lesions during VATS, helping surgeons to perform biopsies with clear surgical margins and higher histological diagnostic yield.
Prof. Dr. Marco Sperandeo
Prof. Dr. Donato Lacedonia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transthoracic ultrasound (TUS)
- ultrasound-guided transthoracic needle biopsy (US-TNB)
- endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)
- intraoperatory lung ultrasound during video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS-ILU)
- pleuropulmonary diseases
- chest wall pathologies
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