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Diagnostic yield and the number of tumor cells of ultrathin bronchoscopy for peripheral lung lesions: A comparison with thin bronchoscopy

English (英語)

PLoS ONE

18(8)

e0290609

Public Library of Science

2023-08-24

2023-10-18

Ultrathin bronchoscopy has been reported to have a higher diagnostic yield than thin bronchoscopy for small peripheral lung lesions in transbronchial biopsy under radial endobronchial ultrasonography (EBUS). However, data comparing the number of tumor cells in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are limited. We retrospectively compared the number of NSCLC tumor cells in peripheral lung lesions obtained using an ultrathin bronchoscope and a thin bronchoscope with radial EBUS between April 2020 and October 2021. In all patients, we used virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN) software, and guide sheaths were used in thin bronchoscopy cases. A total of 175 patients were enrolled in this study. Ultrathin bronchoscopy cases (n = 69) had lesions with a smaller diameter that are more peripherally located compared to thin bronchoscopy cases (n = 106) (median, 25.0 vs. 26.5 mm, mean bronchial generations accessed by bronchoscopy; 4.4±1.2 vs. 3.8±1.0, respectively; p<0.010). There were no significant differences in the overall diagnostic yield (ultrathin vs. thin bronchoscopy cases, 68.1% vs. 72.6%, p = 0.610) or diagnostic yield in only lung cancer cases (78.6% vs. 78.5%, p = 1.000). In histologically NSCLC cases (n = 102), the maximum number of tumor cells per slide as the primary endpoint was similar (average, 307.6±246.7 vs. 328.7±314.9, p = 0.710). The success rate of the Oncomine™ analysis did not differ significantly (80.0% vs. 55.6%, p = 0.247). The yield of NSCLC tumor cells was not different between the samples obtained by the ultrathin bronchoscope and those obtained by the thin bronchoscope.

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