How do you define an adequate EBUS when staging NSCLC?  

Important question. There is a high degree of variability in the diagnostic performance of EBUS based pretest probability of disease, physician experience and skill, quality control, and evaluation skills of the cytopathologist. Nice consensus guidelines from CHEST was published a few years bac...

Agree with the above answer completely. With EBUS, we can sample stations 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, and sometimes even 12. Wanted to add the following practical points to consider. If we can see a lymph node on ultrasound, we can sample it. Ideally, we start with N3 lymph nodes and slowly work towards N1,...

I generally refer to CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Reports to learn more about pulmonology-based procedures: Wahidi et al., PMID 26402427.