Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration for Staging of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma David C. Rice, MB, BCh, Matthew A. Steliga, MD, John Stewart, MD, PhD, George Eapen, MD, Carlos A. Jimenez, MD, Jeffrey H. Lee, MD, Wayne L. Hofstetter, MD, Edith M. Marom, MD, Reza J. Mehran, MD, Ara A. Vaporciyan, MD, Garrett L. Walsh, MD, Stephen G. Swisher, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 88, Issue 3, Pages 862-869 (September 2009) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.05.022 Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) Endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology specimen from a positive node showing malignant epithelioid cells admixed with lymphocytes (Papanicolaou stain). (B) Epithelioid mesothelioma cells showing strong nuclear and cytoplasmic positivity for calretinin. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2009 88, 862-869DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.05.022) Copyright © 2009 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions