A single-institution study of concordance of pathological diagnoses for interstitial lung diseases between pre-transplantation surgical lung biopsies and lung explants

A single-institution study of concordance of pathological diagnoses for interstitial lung diseases between pre-transplantation surgical lung biopsies and lung explants

Abstract Background By comparing diagnoses made by pre-transplant surgical lung biopsy (SLB) and the final pathologic diagnosis of the explanted pathology (EP), we aimed to study the factors that could impact pathologic diagnoses in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). Methods We retrospec...

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Main Authors: Tanmay S. Panchabhai, Andrea Valeria Arrossi, Kristin B. Highland, Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, Daniel A. Culver, Marie M. Budev, Carol F. Farver
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Subjects:
Surgical lung biopsy
Explant pathology
Interstitial lung disease
Lung transplantation
Discordant diagnosis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12890-019-0778-x

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