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Improved diagnostic yield of bronchoscopy in peripheral pulmonary lesions: combination of radial probe endobronchial ultrasound and rapid on-site evaluation

• Chia-Hung Chen, Wen Chien Cheng, +8 authors Ko-Pen Wang
• Journal of thoracic disease
• 2015

BACKGROUND Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) of cytologic specimens is a useful ancillary technique in needle aspiration procedures of pulmonary/mediastinal lesions, but few reports had been carried… (More)

Transbronchial needle aspiration: where are we now?

• Yang Xia, Ko-Pen Wang
• Journal of thoracic disease
• 2013

Lung cancer, as the leading cause of cancer-related motility and mortality worldwide, usually ends up with poor prognosis, despite abundant progress of therapeutic approaches. Early diagnosis and… (More)

Past, present, and future of endobronchial laser photoresection.

• Danai Khemasuwan, Atul C. Mehta, Ko-Pen Wang
• Journal of thoracic disease
• 2015

Laser photoresection of central airway obstruction is a useful tool for an Interventional Pulmonologist (IP). Endobronchial therapy of the malignant airway obstruction is considered as a palliative… (More)

Teaching conventional transbronchial needle aspiration. A continuum.

• Atul C. Mehta, Ko-Pen Wang
• Annals of the American Thoracic Society
• 2013

Proponents of the endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) propose that in this era of EBUS-TBNA, training for conventional transbronchial needle aspiration… (More)

Counterpoint: Should endobronchial ultrasound guide every transbronchial needle aspiration of lymph nodes? No.

• Jian An Huang, Robert F. Browning, Ko-Pen Wang
• Chest
• 2013

Point/Counterpoint Editorials 5. Gu P , Zhao YZ , Jiang LY , Zhang W , Xin Y , Han BH . Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for staging of lung cancer: a systematic… (More)

Utilization of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and Wang’s nodal map for the identification of mediastinum and hilar lymph nodes

• Yang Xia, Yun Ma, Sixto A Arias, Hans Joo Lee, Ko-Pen Wang
• Thoracic cancer
• 2015

BACKGROUND Transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA), serving as a remarkably invaluable and minimally invasive technique, has been widely used for the diagnosis and staging of mediastinal adenopathy… (More)

Evaluation of lymph node metastasis in lung cancer: who is the chief justice?

• Yang Xia, Bixiang Zhang, Hao Zhang, W Li, Ko-Pen Wang, Huahao Shen
• Journal of thoracic disease
• 2015

Accurate determination of the diagnosis and the stage of lung cancer play a critical role to ensure that patients are provided the optimal treatment. However, the process is usually beyond complex.… (More)

Evolution of transbronchial needle aspiration - a hybrid method

• Yuan Zhang, Ko-Pen Wang
• Journal of thoracic disease
• 2013

Conventional Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (C-TBNA) has been around for three decades, however it is still underutilized. Recent development of Ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration… (More)

EBUS-TBNA of lesions in mediastinum.

• Ko-Pen Wang
• Journal of thoracic disease
• 2010

EBUS-TBNA can identify the lesion to be biopsied, puncture the needle into the lesion, and biopsy it all under live ultrasound visualization. In the contrary, in standard TBNA the lesion is… (More)

Tracheobronchial stenosis from acid aspiration presenting as asthma.

• Arnon E Rubin, Ko-Pen Wang, Mark C. Liu
• Chest
• 2003

We report a case of a 42-year-old man who fell in a vat of hydrochloric acid, resulting in ingestion and aspiration of acid. Initially, he suffered from a chemical pneumonitis and GI burns. He was… (More)

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