Rationale: Conventional electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy and other guided
bronchoscopic modalities have a very desirable safety profile, but their diagnostic yield is …

Bronchoscopy in children has been utilized primarily to diagnose airway anomalies and
obtain bronchoalveolar lavage. Gradual development of thinner bronchoscopes and …

Abstract Background and Objective Ultrathin bronchoscopy aids in the diagnosis of
peripheral pulmonary lesions. However, both the working channel and the specimens are …

Rationale: Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBCB) for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease
(ILD) has shown promising results, but prospective studies with matched surgical lung …

Background: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) evaluation often requires lung biopsy for definite
diagnosis. In recent years, transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBCB) emerged as a procedure with …

Background: Diagnosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD) is based on multidisciplinary team
discussion (MDD) with the incorporation of clinical, radiographical, and histopathologic …

Cryosurgical techniques are employed for diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy and
serve as important tools for the management of pulmonary diseases. The diagnosis of …

Abstract Purpose of Review Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBCB) may be used as an
alternative to surgical lung biopsy (SLB) for the histopathologic evaluation of interstitial lung …

The diagnosis of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is based on biopsies. Compared with
other methods of taking biopsies, transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) has a higher …

Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are a heterogeneous group of pulmonary diseases diagnosed
through a multidisciplinary iterative process known as multidisciplinary discussion (MDD) …