Virtual bronchoscopic navigation improves the diagnostic yield of radial-endobronchial ultrasound for peripheral pulmonary lesions with involved bronchi on CT

Internal Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1021-1025

  Asano, Fumihiro ^a   Shinagawa, Naofumi ^b   Ishida, Takashi ^c   Tsuzuku, Akifumi ^a   Tachihara, Motoko ^c   Kanazawa, Kenya ^c   Yamada, Noriyuki ^b   Oizumi, Satoshi ^b   Moriya, Hiroshi ^d  

^a GIFU PREFECTURAL GIFU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Ohara General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchoscopy; Lung cancer; Solitary pulmonary nodule; Transbronchial biopsy; Virtual bronchoscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPIC NAVIGATION SYSTEM; BRONCHUS; BRONCHUS RUPTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL LUNG LESION; RADIAL ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPIC NAVIGATION; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPES; BRONCHOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84928964037     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.54.3497     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Aberle DR, Adams AM, Berg CD, et al. Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening. N Engl J Med 365: 395-409, 2011.
2. Gould MK, Fletcher J, Iannettoni MD, et al. Evaluation of patients with pulmonary nodules: when is it lung cancer?: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (2nd edition). Chest 132: 108S-130S, 2007.
3. Rivera MP, Mehta AC, Wahidi MM. Establishing the diagnosis of lung cancer: Diagnosis and management of lung cancer, 3rd ed: American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest 143: e142S-e165S, 2013.
4. Kurimoto N, Miyazawa T, Okimasa S, et al. Endobronchial ultrasonography using a guide sheath increases the ability to diagnose peripheral pulmonary lesions endoscopically. Chest 126: 959-965, 2004.
5. Steinfort DP, Khor YH, Manser RL, Irving LB. Radial probe endobronchial ultrasound for the diagnosis of peripheral lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Respir J 37: 902-910, 2011.
6. Herth FJ, Eberhardt R, Becker HD, Ernst A. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial lung biopsy in fluoroscopically invisible solitary pulmonary nodules: a prospective trial. Chest 129: 147-150, 2006.
7. Kikuchi E, Yamazaki K, Sukoh N, et al. Endobronchial ultrasonography with guide-sheath for peripheral pulmonary lesions. Eur Respir J 24: 533-537, 2004.
8. Asano F, Matsuno Y, Matsushita T, Seko A. Transbronchial diagnosis of a pulmonary peripheral small lesion using an ultrathin bronchoscope with virtual bronchoscopic navigation. J Bronchol 9: 108-111, 2002.
9. Asano F. Virtual bronchoscopic navigation. Clin Chest Med 31: 75-85, 2010.
10. Asahina H, Yamazaki K, Onodera Y, et al. Transbronchial biopsy using endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath and virtual bronchoscopic navigation. Chest 128: 1761-1765, 2005.
11. Asano F, Matsuno Y, Tsuzuku A, et al. Diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary lesions using a bronchoscope insertion guidance system combined with endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath. Lung Cancer 60: 366-373, 2008.
12. Oshige M, Shirakawa T, Nakamura M, et al. Clinical application of virtual bronchoscopic navigation system for peripheral lung lesions. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol 18: 196-202, 2011.
13. Ishida T, Asano F, Yamazaki K, et al. Virtual bronchoscopic navigation combined with endobronchial ultrasound to diagnose small peripheral pulmonary lesions: a randomised trial. Thorax 66: 1072-1077, 2011.
14. Tamiya M, Okamoto N, Sasada S, et al. Diagnostic yield of combined bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasonography, under LungPoint guidance for small peripheral pulmonary lesions. Respirology 18: 834-839, 2013.
15. Gaeta M, Pandolfo I, Volta S, et al. Bronchus sign on CT in peripheral carcinoma of the lung: value in predicting results of transbronchial biopsy. AJR Am J Roentgenol 157: 1181-1185, 1991.
16. Baaklini WA, Reinoso MA, Gorin AB, et al. Diagnostic yield of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in evaluating solitary pulmonary nodules. Chest 117: 1049-1054, 2000.
17. Chao TY, Chien MT, Lie CH, et al. Endobronchial ultrasonography-guided transbronchial needle aspiration increasesthe diagnostic yield of peripheral pulmonary lesions: a randomized trial. Chest 136: 229-236, 2009.
18. Ohno Y, Hatabu H, Takenaka D, et al. CT-guided transthoracic needle aspiration biopsy of small (< or =20 mm) solitary pulmonary nodules. AJR Am J Roentgenol 180: 1665-1669, 2003.
19. Wiener RS, Schwartz LM, Woloshin S, Welch HG. Populationbased risk for complications after transthoracic needle lung biopsy of a pulmonary nodule: an analysis of discharge records. Ann Intern Med 155: 137-144, 2011.