Bronchoscopic Cryobiopsy for the Diagnosis of Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 11; p. e78674
• Main Authors: Kropski, Jonathan A., Pritchett, Jason M., Mason, Wendi R., Sivarajan, Lakshmi, Gleaves, Linda A., Johnson, Joyce E., Lancaster, Lisa H., Lawson, William E., Blackwell, Timothy S., Steele, Mark P., Loyd, James E., Rickman, Otis B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 12.11.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Biopsy; Bronchoscopy; Bronchoscopy - methods; Complications; Critical care; Diagnosis; Diagnostic systems; Dyspnea; Female; Humans; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - diagnosis; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - pathology; International conferences; Lung cancer; Lung diseases; Lung Diseases, Interstitial - diagnosis; Lung Diseases, Interstitial - pathology; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medical instruments; Medicine; Middle Aged; Mortality; Parenchyma; Patients; Physicians; Pneumonia; Pulmonary fibrosis; Respiration; Retrospective Studies; Surgery; Thoracic surgery; United States > US; Tennessee; Nashville Tennessee

Although in some cases clinical and radiographic features may be sufficient to establish a diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), surgical lung biopsy is frequently required. Recently a new technique for bronchoscopic lung biopsy has been developed using flexible cryo-probes. In this...