Diagnostic Yield of Bronchoscopic Lung Biopsy in Evaluating Lung Cancer

The diagnostic yield of repeat transbronchial lung biopsy.

Significance of bronchoscopic lung biopsy in clinical practice.

PURPOSE At present bronchoscopic lung biopsy (BLB) is widely used to diagnose various lung diseases. However placing of BLB in the diagnostic sequence of various clinical situations is not so clear. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of BLB in a daily clinical practice. MATERIAL AND METHODS The data obtained from the case records of all 304 patients who had undergon...

Cytology of bronchial biopsy rinse fluid to improve the diagnostic yield for lung cancer.

Sampling techniques are combined during bronchoscopy to increase the diagnostic yield for endobronchial malignant tumours. Bronchial biopsy provides the definitive histological diagnosis in most cases, but accompanying cytological procedures such as washing, brushing, needle aspiration or imprint cytology can increase diagnostic yield. In this prospective study, a different cytological techniqu...

Diagnostic yield of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy in interstitial lung diseases.

Surgical lung biopsy (SLB) is still considered the gold standard procedure to obtain histology in interstitial lung diseases (ILD), the final diagnosis being decided on the basis of multidisciplinary assessment. The availability of a histological pattern may be very important in reaching diagnosis, predicting outcome and responding to treatment. There has been an increasing interest on transbro...

Is bronchoscopic lung biopsy helpful in the management of patients with diffuse lung disease?

Few studies have evaluated how the results of bronchoscopic lung biopsy (BLB) affect clinical management. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of BLB in the overall management of patients with diffuse pulmonary diseases. The study was a retrospective analysis of patients who underwent fluoroscopy-guided BLB over a 2-yr period. Patients whose biopsy was of a...