# OnCo record ebus-tbna (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/ebus-tbna/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "ebus-tbna" ;
  schema:name "Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS-TBNA)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "EBUS"@en, "endobronchial ultrasound"@en, "EBUS-TBNA"@en, "endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration"@en, "EUS-FNA"@en, "endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration"@en, "endosonography"@en ;
  schema:description "A camera with an ultrasound probe on its tip is passed down the windpipe; the ultrasound finds the lymph nodes sitting just outside the airway wall and a needle is passed through the wall to sample them. It is how lung cancer is staged without an operation."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/ebus-tbna/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endobronchial_ultrasound> ;
  schema:citation <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng122/chapter/Diagnosis-and-staging>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2024.02.011>, <https://doi.org/10.1093/bjr/tqaf161> ;
  onco:tag "lung" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-lcnec/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/terms/bronchoscopy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ct/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/pet/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/mediastinal-lymph-node-stations/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/tnm-9-lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/resectability-lung-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/bronchoscopy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/mediastinum/> .