Surely EBUS-TBNA cannot completely replace mediastinoscopy so far, it may indeed reduce the number of mediastinoscopy procedures.
However, as NGS becomes increasingly cost effective and convenient, it bears the potential to replace the so far multiple and complex procedures in a microbiological routine laboratory by just a single, straightforward, and most efficient workflow [ 184].
Mr Scholes, however, insists that the efficient-market paradigm is not dead: "To say something has failed you have to have something to replace it, and so far we don't have a new paradigm to replace efficient markets".
In 2003, the school's longtime mascot, Colonel Reb, with his unfortunate resemblance to a plantation owner, was given his walking papers, but efforts to replace him have so far fizzled.
Facebook brought in a team to replace him, but so far, nada.
People I meet on the street in Cairo say that the government that replaced Mubarak has so far abused its trust.
Although tremendous efforts have been made in replacing infarcted myocardium, so far no therapy has proven effective in clinical application.
Michigan legislators have been pushing for the federal government to replace the lock, but so far, the best that's come through is a tentative cost-benefit study.
Executive recruiters said Texas Pacific had deep pockets and was aiming to bring in top-level talent to replace Mr. Sarvary, although so far it has been frustrated in these efforts.
The much faster RELL approximation [ 4, 5] can in principle replace the bootstrap, although so far it has not been extensively investigated with large datasets [ 6].
Despite this, and despite the fact that a range of alternatives such as Healthy-Year Equivalents (HYEs), Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) or Person Trade-Offs (PTOs) [ 8], have been proposed to replace QALYs, none have so far succeeded in displacing the intuitively attractive QALY.
