lung/mediastinal biopsy

Introduction

see lung biopsy, mediastinal lymphadenopathy

Indications

bronchoscopic lung biopsy

• sarcoidosis
• pulmonary Langerhans cell granuloma
• eosinophilic pneumonitis
• lymphangioleiomyomatosis
• pulmonary infections
• pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
• lymphangitic carcinomatosis
• drug-induced lung disease
• hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• pulmonary nodule

mediastinal lymphadenopathy

More general terms

• tissue biopsy

More specific terms

• lung biopsy