Robot-assisted bronchoscopy for pulmonary lesion diagnosis: results from the initial multicenter experience

• Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 243 - 7
• Main Authors: Chaddha, Udit, Kovacs, Stephen P., Manley, Christopher, Hogarth, D. Kyle, Cumbo-Nacheli, Gustavo, Bhavani, Sivasubramanium V., Kumar, Rohit, Shende, Manisha, Egan, John P., Murgu, Septimiu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 11.12.2019; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Aged; Analysis; Biopsy; Bronchoscopy; Bronchoscopy - methods; Clinical trials; Diagnosis; Electromagnetic navigation; Failure; Feasibility studies; Female; Health; Humans; Image-Guided Biopsy - methods; Logistic Models; Lung cancer; Lung diseases; Lung Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Lung Diseases - pathology; Lung lesion; Lungs; Male; Medical equipment industry; Medical imaging; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Pathology; Patients; Pneumothorax; Pulmonary lesions; Pulmonology; Retrospective Studies; Robotic bronchoscopy; Robotic Surgical Procedures; Robotics; Robots; Software; Technology; Technology application; Ultrasonography; United States; United States > US; Electromagnetic navigation; Lung lesion; Biopsy; Lung cancer; Robotic bronchoscopy

The Robotic Endoscopic System (Auris Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA) has the potential to overcome several limitations of contemporary guided-bronchoscopic technologies for the diagnosis of lung lesions. Our objective is to report on the initial post-marketing feasibility, safety and diagnostic yiel...