ArticleThe Annals of thoracic surgery2020
Improved Diagnostic Yield and Specimen Quality With Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Forceps Biopsies: A Retrospective Analysis.
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- Diagnostic yield and feasibility of EBUS-guided cautery-assisted transbronchial forceps biopsy for suspected benign mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy: a prospective self-controlled pilot study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Does needle size affect the diagnostic yield of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for malignant lymphoma?-a narrative review.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2026Review
- The evolving role of interventional pulmonology with endobronchial ultrasonography in the diagnosis of lymphoma: a narrative review.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2026Review
- Comparison of sequential cryoprobe and biopsy forceps in endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for mediastinal and hilar lesions: a prospective observational study.Annals of medicine · 2025Observational
- Atypical sarcoidosis diagnosed using endobronchial ultrasound-guided mediastinal lymph node biopsy with fine biopsy forceps: Two case reports.World journal of clinical cases · 2025Article
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- Tissue Adequacy and Diagnostic Yield Assessment in Malignant Lymph Nodes Using Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)-Guided Miniforcep Biopsy vs. EBUS-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2025Article
- Feasibility of Endobronchial Ultrasound Guided Miniforceps Biopsy for PD-L1 Expression and Quantitative Tissue Analysis.Thoracic cancer · 2025Article
- Diagnostic value and safety of contact laser-assisted endobronchial ultrasound-guided tunnel drilling biopsy in mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy: a retrospective study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Safety and efficacy of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial biopsy of intrathoracic lymphadenopathy.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- A Review of Endobronchial-Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Intranodal Forceps Biopsy and Cryobiopsy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Tract creation with a 25-gauge needle for convex endobronchial ultrasound-guided core biopsy in intrapulmonary lesions adjacent to bronchi: three case reports.Translational lung cancer research · 2023Article
- Assessment of endobronchial ultrasound-guided bronchoscopy (EBUS) intranodal forceps biopsy added to EBUS 19-gauge transbronchial needle aspiration: A blinded pathology panel analysis.Thoracic cancer · 2023Article
- Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial mediastinal cryobiopsy in the diagnosis of mediastinal lesions: safety, feasibility and diagnostic yield - experience in 50 cases.ERJ open research · 2023Article
- Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Forceps Biopsy: A Retrospective Bicentric Study Using the Olympus 1.5 mm Mini-Forceps.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Guidelines for endobronchial ultrasound-transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA): Joint Indian Chest Society (ICS)/Indian Association for Bronchology (IAB) recommendations.Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest SocietyArticle
- Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial mediastinal cryobiopsyEndoscopic ultrasoundArticle
- Endobronchial ultrasound-guided intranodal forceps biopsy (EBUS-IFB) using 19G needle tract: First case series from India.Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest SocietyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundEndobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) has a high diagnostic yield when evaluating mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy (LAD). Having previously demonstrated the safety of EBUS-guided cautery-assisted transbronchial nodal forceps biopsy (ca-TBFB), we report disease-specific improvements in diagnostic yield and tissue acquisition when supplementing the EBUS-TBNA-based standard of care (SOC) with ca-TBFB.
methodsWe retrospectively reviewed 213 patients who sequentially underwent SOC and ca-TBFB during the same procedure. We determined 3 clinical scenarios of interest based on preprocedural imaging: isolated mediastinal/hilar LAD, LAD associated with a nodule or mass suspicious for malignancy, and LAD associated with parenchymal findings suggestive of sarcoidosis. Using validated methods, we assessed diagnostic yield on a per-patient basis and specimen quality on a per-node basis on the 136 patients meeting diagnostic criteria.
resultsAdministration of disease-specific SOC with ca-TBFB yielded gains that varied by diagnosis. Diagnostic yields of SOC and its supplementation with ca-TBFB were 91.8% and 93.4% (P = .50) of the 61 patients diagnosed with solid-organ malignancy, 62.7% and 94.9% (P < .001) of the 59 patients diagnosed with sarcoidosis, and 62.5% and 93.8% (P = .042) of the 16 patients diagnosed with lymphoma, the. For each disease process, specimens obtained with ca-TBFB exhibited statistically higher quality.
conclusionsWe suggest that relative to SOC, ca-TBFB improves diagnostic yield for sarcoidosis and lymphoma while providing uniformly better tissue quality and cellularity. We propose a protocol for use of this innovative technique.
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