Clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for preoperative staging of non-small-cell lung cancer: Results of a French prospective multicenter trial (EVIEPEB).

This two-step study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) for presurgery staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in France (EVIEPEB; ClinicalTrial.gov identifier NCT00960271). Step 1 consisted of a high-benchmark EBUS-T...

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Main Authors: Christos Chouaid, Mathieu Salaün, Valérie Gounant, Michel Febvre, Jean-Michel Vergnon, Vincent Jouniaux, Clément Fournier, Samy Lachkar, Christophe Hermant, Christophe Raspaud, Xavier Quantin, Jean-Jacques Quiot, Anita Molard, Charles Dayen, Charles-Hugo Marquette, Hervé Lena, Gérard Zalcman, Luc Thiberville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208992