1st Edition
Endobronchial Ultrasound Made Easy
i. Dedications
ii. Table of contents
iii. Foreword
iv. Preface
v. Acknowledgements
vi. List of contributors
Section 1: Introduction
1.1 History of EBUS
David Fielding MBBS FRACP MD
1.2 EBUS equipment
Sameer K. Avasarala MD
Fabien Maldonado MD FCCP
1.3 Principles of Endobronchial Ultrasonography
Elliot Ho DO
Septimiu Murgu MD
Section 2: Anatomy
2.1 Anatomy of the Mediastinum
Alexander Gregor MD PhD
Tsukasa Ishiwata MD PhD
Kazuhiro Yasufuku MD PhD FRCSC
2.2 Airways
Fumihiro Asano MD
Kazuhiro Yasufuku MD PhD FRCSC
Section 3: EBUS interpretation
3.1 Mediastinum
Andrew DeMaio MD
David Feller-Kopman MD
3.2 Airways
Allen Cole Burks MD
Alexander Chen MD
Section 4: EBUS Indications
4.1 Linear EBUS
Calvin Sidhu MBBS FRACP
Rajesh Thomas MBBS PhD FRACP
4.2 Radial EBUS
Arash Badiei BE (Biomedical) MBBS PhD FRACP
Phan Nguyen MBBS PhD FRACP
Section 5: EBUS – Step-by-step
5.1 Linear EBUS
Takahiro Nakajima MD PhD
5.2 Radial EBUS
Daniel Steinfort MBBS BMedSci FRACP PhD
Section 6: Safey of EBUS
Justin Garner MBBS MRC PhD
Pallav Shah MD MBBS FERS FRCP
Section 7: EUS-B
Bin Hwangbo MD PhD
Section 8: Anaesthesia
Mona Sarkiss MD PhD
Section 9: EBUS Training
Ekaterina Yavarovic DO
Carla Lamb MD FACP FCCP
Section 10: Setting up your EBUS service
Coral X. Giovacchini MD
Momen M. Wahidi MD MBA
Section 11: EBUS in the developing world
Balamugesh Thangakunam MD DM FRCP FRCPS FCCP
Section 12: The Future of EBUS
Xinxin Hu BMedSci MD MMedicine FRACP
Rajesh Thomas MBBS PhD FRACP
Kazuhiro Yasufuku MD PhD FRCSC
Section 13: Clinical PEARLS
Xinxin Hu BMedSci MD MMedicine FRACP
Nai-Chien Huan MBBS FRCP FCCP FAPSR
Rajesh Thomas MBBS PhD FRACP
Biography
Dr Rajesh Thomas is an Interventional Pulmonology leader from Australia with a passion for bronchoscopy education and training. He leads the Interventional Bronchoscopy clinical and fellowship programs at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth and has keen research interests in EBUS and navigational bronchoscopy. He is a Clinical Professor at the University of Western Australia, Perth where he runs an acclaimed workshop series for advanced bronchoscopy training. He was the convenor of the Australian Interventional Pulmonology Interest group and is also the President of the 2026 World Congress of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology in Melbourne.
Dr. Kazuhiro Yasufuku is an internationally known Thoracic Surgeon with specific expertise in minimal invasive thoracic surgery and minimal invasive diagnostic procedures. He co-developed the Convex Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound and has successfully introduced the clinical application of EBUS-TBNA in Thoracic Oncology. He is the Head of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. He is also Professor and Chair of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at University of Toronto. He holds the RFG Pearson – RJ Ginsberg Chair in Thoracic Surgery and William Coco Chair in Surgical Innovation for Lung Cancer.
