Endoscopic ultrasound with bronchoscope-guided fine-needle aspiration targets
| Anatomical location# | Target lesions sampled n | ||
| Operator 1¶ over 4.5 years | Operator 2+ over 3.5 years | Operator 3§ over 1.5 years | |
| Nodal station | |||
| 1L | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2L | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 2R | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 3p | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 4L | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | 9 | 20 | 9 |
| 8 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
| 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Non-nodal lesions | |||
| Right upper lobe | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| Right lower lobe | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Left upper lobe | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| Low paraoesophageal lesions | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Coeliac axis node | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Left adrenal gland | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Pleura | 0 | 1 | 0 |
#: lymph node stations are listed as per the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2009 classification [13]; ¶: 43 patients, 44 targets; +: 50 patients, 60 targets; §: 44 patients, 46 targets.