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Pulmonary hamartomas represent the most frequent family of benign lung tumors that typically involve the lung parenchyma and only rarely grow as endobronchial tumors. The elective treatment of endobronchial hamartoma is the bronchoscopic resection, and in those cases in which tumor extension and localization makes it not possible, surgical treatment must be evaluated. Patients with symptomatic COVID-19, hospitalized, frequently undergo a chest CT scan and in some cases, occasional findings may emerge, requiring diagnostic investigations such as bronchoscopy and interventional pulmonology procedures. Therefore, in such a delicate pathological condition, such as COVID-19, the need to perform bronchoscopy and interventional pulmonology procedures, minimizing the risk of viral transmission and ensuring necessary assistance, represents a great challenge for pulmonologists. In this article authors describe, for the first time in literature, a rare case of endobronchial hamartoma, radically resected using a single use bronchoscope, in a young female patient hospitalized for symptomatic COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Conventional TBNA (cTBNA) is a technique used for cytological sampling of mediastinal lymphnodes performed with CT guide, using Wang areas. This method is useful to obtain cytological specimen from lymphnodes and ilo-mediastinal structures for the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer and pulmonary granulomatosis. Since 2003, the spread of EBUS TBNA (Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration) has led to a qualitative increase in the cTBNA's yeld due to the better knowledges about vascular structures, studied in real time, and the possibility to sample subcentimetric lymph nodes not reachable with cTBNA. In this study, a retrospective survey was conducted over a period of 24 months to assess, in a U.O. of Interventional Pneumology, the cTBNA diagnostic yield before and during training with EBUS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]