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Non-diagnostic Results of Percutaneous Transthoracic Needle Biopsy: A Meta-analysis.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Diagnostic Efficacy of PET/CT-Aided versus Conventional CT-guided Lung Biopsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisCurrent medical imaging · 2025Pooled it
- 2020 Clinical Practice Guideline for Percutaneous Transthoracic Needle Biopsy of Pulmonary Lesions: A Consensus Statement and Recommendations of the Korean Society of Thoracic Radiology.Korean journal of radiology · 2021Guideline
- Malignancy risk and contrast-enhanced ultrasound guidance in non-diagnostic biopsies of peripheral lung lesions: a multicenter study.European radiology · 2026Article
- Narrative review of diagnostic yield of navigational bronchoscopy for pulmonary nodules-a call for standardization.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Review
- Diagnostic accuracy of percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy among peripheral pulmonary lesions: a multicenter observational study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- Assessment of Advanced Diagnostic Bronchoscopy Outcomes for Peripheral Lung Lesions: A Delphi Consensus Definition of Diagnostic Yield and Recommendations for Patient-centered Study Designs. An Official American Thoracic Society/American College of Chest Physicians Research Statement.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Article
- Problems in the Pathologic Diagnosis of Suspected Lung Cancer.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2023Article
- The Use of Robotic-Assisted Bronchoscopy in the Diagnostic Evaluation of Peripheral Pulmonary Lesions: A Paradigm Shift.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The risk of immediate pneumothorax after CT-guided lung needle biopsy: pleural tail sign as a novel factor.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy and Complication of Computed Tomography (CT)-Guided Percutaneous Transthoracic Lung Biopsy in Patients 80 Years and Older.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Non-diagnostic results can affect the diagnostic performance of percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy (PTNB) but have not been critically meta-analyzed yet. To meta-analyze the incidence and malignancy rate of non-diagnostic results, 3-by-2 table approaches rather than the conventional 2-by-2 approaches are needed to know its impact on the diagnostic performance of PTNB. A systematic literature search identified studies evaluating the diagnostic performance of PTNB with extractable outcomes. A total of 143 studies with 35,059 biopsies were included. The pooled incidence of non-diagnostic results was 6.8% (95% CI, 6.0-7.6%; I
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