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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sabawoon Mirwais, M.B.B.S, M.D.[2]

Overview

Echocardiography can help in the diagnosis making of a lung mass. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) can successfully determine the extent of invasion of a lung mass into the great vessels. Endobronchial ultrasound can be used as the initial diagnostic and staging procedure.

Echocardiography can help in the diagnosis making of a lung mass.
This is especially true in the case of an invasion of the sorrounding structures.^[1]
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) can successfully determine the extent of invasion of a malignant lung mass into the great vessels.^[1]
It can also determine and confirm the presence of pericardial effusion in the setting of a lung mass.^[2]

Endobronchial ultrasound can be used as the initial diagnostic and staging procedure.^[3]^[4]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Obeid, Anis I. (2005). "Transesophageal Echocardiography and Staging in Lung Cancer". Chest. 127 (2): 420–423. doi:10.1378/chest.127.2.420. ISSN 0012-3692.
↑ "Echocardiography in the initial assessment of patients with small cell lung cancer". Lung Cancer. 7 (4): 269. 1991. doi:10.1016/0169-5002(91)90330-9. ISSN 0169-5002.
↑ Fotios Sampsonas, Loukas Kakoullis, Dimosthenis Lykouras, Kiriakos Karkoulias & Konstantinos Spiropoulos (2018). "EBUS: Faster, cheaper and most effective in lung cancer staging". International journal of clinical practice. 72 (2). doi:10.1111/ijcp.13053. PMID 29314425. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
↑ Mario Gomez & Gerard A. Silvestri (2009). "Endobronchial ultrasound for the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer". Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 6 (2): 180–186. doi:10.1513/pats.200808-081LC. PMID 19349486. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)