Chest
Volume 138, Issue 4, Supplement, October 2010, Page 431A
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A Retrospective Review of Patients Undergoing CT-Guided Bronchoscopy for Suspected Lung Cancer in a Teaching Hospital

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PURPOSE: Occassionally, pulmonary nodules are in regions where obtaining a diagnosis with conventional bronchoscopy or CT-guided percutaneous biopsy is difficult. Fifteen prior studies using conventional bronchoscopy for peripheral lesions yielded a sensitivity of 52% for diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma. CT-guided bronchoscopy may improve diagnostic accuracy in these difficult to reach lesions, but the literature supporting this is unclear. Our aim is to assess the diagnostic yield of

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