“…EBUS provides adequate access to hilar, mediastinal, and interlobar lymph nodes; however, it is not a good option for perivascular, aortopulmonary, para-aortic, pulmonary ligament, and paraesophageal nodes (Figure 1: lymph node stations 3a, 5, 6, 8, and 9) [32]. In patients with an abnormal mediastinum on imaging, the sensitivity of EBUS alone is 94-95% [32,33].…”