ArticleSurgery today2022
Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy versus virtual bronchoscopy navigation for improving the diagnosis of peripheral lung lesions: analysis of the predictors of successful diagnosis.
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- Comparison of Synapse 3D system (Version 4.4) and DirectPath system (Version 2.0) in virtual bronchoscopic navigation application for peripheral pulmonary nodules.Therapeutic advances in respiratory diseaseArticle
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate if electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) improves the diagnostic yield for peripheral lung lesions from that achieved by virtual bronchoscopy navigation (VBN).
methodsThis retrospective study compared the results of 100 ENB-transbronchial lung biopsies (TBLBs) with those of 50 VBN-TBLBs at a single institution.
resultsENB improved the diagnostic yield significantly compared with VBN (64.0% for 19.4 ± 9.0 mm tumors vs. 46.0% for 27.6 ± 8.9 mm tumors; p < 0.0001). Irrespective of the bronchus sign, ENB was more favorable than VBN, with 81.0% (47/58) achieved by ENB vs. 60.0% (21/35) achieved by VBN in the presence of the positive bronchus sign (p = 0.0283), and 40.5% (17/42) achieved by ENB vs. 13.3% (2/15) achieved by VBN in the absence of the bronchus sign (p = 0.0431). Univariate analysis identified tumor size (p = 0.0048), amount of intravenous sedation (p = 0.0182), registration time (p = 0.0111), minimum distance to target (p = 0.0244), and the bronchus sign (p < 0.0001) as factors that affected the yield significantly for ENB. Multivariate analysis identified the bronchus sign (odds ratio 6.74; 95% CI 1.84-24.7) and the registration time (OR 1.01; 95% CI 1.00-1.02) as significant factors.
conclusionsDespite the bronchus sign being a significant factor, ENB improved the diagnostic yield of smaller lesions significantly, compared with VBN, regardless of the bronchus sign.
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