Use of Ultrathin Bronchoscope on a Need Basis Improves Diagnostic Yield of Difficult-to-Approach Pulmonary Lesions

Use of Ultrathin Bronchoscope on a Need Basis Improves Diagnostic Yield of Difficult-to-Approach Pulmonary Lesions

There are cases of peripheral lung nodules that are difficult to approach despite using ancillary diagnostic devices during multimodal bronchoscopy. The use of ultrathin bronchoscopes has shown superiority over standard thin bronchoscopes. We retrospectively evaluated whether substitution of the thi...

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Main Authors: Yoichi Nishii, Yuki Nakamura, Kentaro Fujiwara, Kentaro Ito, Tadashi Sakaguchi, Yuta Suzuki, Kazuki Furuhashi, Tetsu Kobayashi, Taro Yasuma, Corina N. D'Alessandro-Gabazza, Esteban C. Gabazza, Fumihiro Asano, Osamu Taguchi, Osamu Hataji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
ultrathin bronchoscope
peripheral pulmonary lesion
diagnostic bronchoscopy
endobronchial ultrasound
thin bronchoscope
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.588048/full

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