Prevalence of nodal metastases in lymph node stations 8 & 9 in a large UK lung cancer surgical centre without routine pre-operative EUS nodal staging

The prevalence of lymph node metastases in stations 8/9 in this UK surgical centre where routine pre-operative EUS is not performed is low at approximately 5%. Given the identification of N2 disease in two-thirds of these patients can potentially be achieved through EBUS alone, this questions whether the resource implications of EUS are justified by the impact on patient management.