Cancer cytopathology
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Cancer cytopathology · Mar 2014
Comparative StudyThe emerging technique of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy-guided fine-needle aspiration of peripheral lung lesions: promising results in 50 lesions.
Literature on the diagnostic yield of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) with ENB-guided fine-needle aspiration (ENB-FNA) in peripheral lung lesions (PLLs) that measure ≤ 2 cm is scarce. Data on the diagnostic yield of ENB-FNA for PLLs when performed in conjunction with positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT), rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE), ENB-guided bronchial brushing (ENB-BB), and ENB-guided transbronchial biopsy (ENB-TBx) is also limited. In this study, the authors evaluated their experience with ENB-FNA performed in conjunction with all 4 modalities: PET-CT, ROSE, ENB-BB, and ENB-TBx. ⋯ The high overall diagnostic yield of 94% and fewer complications make ENB-FNA a useful modality for the assessment of PLLs. In this study, ROSE was useful, whereas PET-CT, ENB-BB, and ENB-TBx were not useful in the evaluation of PLLs.