Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia
Authors: Lancman G, Lozada K, Athar N, Jacobs S, Doucette J, Cho HJ, Jagannath S, Madduri D, Parekh S, Richard S, Richter J, Chari A
Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology
Authors: Coromilas EJ, Kochav S, Goldenthal I, Biviano A, Garan H, Goldbarg S, Kim JH, Yeo I, Tracy C, Ayanian S, Akar J, Singh A, Jain S, Zimerman L, Pimentel M, Osswald S, Twerenbold R, Schaerli N, Crotti L, Fabbri D, Parati G, Li Y, Atienza F, Zatarain E, Tse G, Leung KSK, Guevara-Valdivia ME, Rivera-Santiago CA, Soejima K, De Filippo P, Ferrari P, Malanchini G, Kanagaratnam P, Khawaja S, Mikhail GW, Scanavacca M, Abrahão Hajjar L, Rizerio B, Sacilotto L, Mollazadeh R, Eslami M, Laleh Far V, Mattioli AV, Boriani G, Migliore F, Cipriani A, Donato F, Compagnucci P, Casella M, Dello Russo A, Coromilas J, Aboyme A, O'Brien CG, Rodriguez F, Wang PJ, Naniwadekar A, Moey M, Kow CS, Cheah WK, Auricchio A, Conte G, Hwang J, Han S, Lazzerini PE, Franchi F, Santoro A, Capecchi PL, Joglar JA, Rosenblatt AG, Zardini M, Bricoli S, Bonura R, Echarte-Morales J, Benito-González T, Minguito-Carazo C, Fernández-Vázquez F, Wan EY
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Authors: Washington NL, Gangavarapu K, Zeller M, Bolze A, Cirulli ET, Schiabor Barrett KM, Larsen BB, Anderson C, White S, Cassens T, Jacobs S, Levan G, Nguyen J, Ramirez JM, Rivera-Garcia C, Sandoval E, Wang X, Wong D, Spencer E, Robles-Sikisaka R, Kurzban E, Hughes LD, Deng X, Wang C, Servellita V, Valentine H, De Hoff P, Seaver P, Sathe S, Gietzen K, Sickler B, Antico J, Hoon K, Liu J, Harding A, Bakhtar O, Basler T, Austin B, Isaksson M, Febbo P, Becker D, Laurent M, McDonald E, Yeo GW, Knight R, Laurent LC, de Feo E, Worobey M, Chiu C, Suchard MA, Lu JT, Lee W, Andersen KG
Occupational medicine (Oxford, England)
Authors: Smith JL, Banerjee R, Linkin DR, Schwab EP, Saberi P, Lanzi M
EJHaem
Authors: Banerjee R, Lazar AA, Dunn L, Knoche J, Lo M, Arora S, Wong SW, Wolf JL, Martin TG, Dhruva A, Shah N
Clinical breast cancer
Authors: Jackisch C, Barcenas CH, Bartsch R, Palma JD, Glück S, Harbeck N, Macedo G, O'Shaughnessy J, Pistilli B, Ruiz-Borrego M, Rugo HS
Journal of pain and symptom management
Authors: Rabow MW, Huang CS, White-Hammond GE, Tucker RO
Environment international
Authors: Aquilina NJ, Havel CM, Cheung P, Harrison RM, Ho KF, Benowitz NL, Jacob Iii P
Volume 199 of Issue 2 | Lung
Authors: Benn BS, Romero AO, Lum M, Krishna G
INTRODUCTION
The sensitivity of suspicious lung nodules biopsied by currently available techniques is suboptimal. Robotic-assisted navigation bronchoscopy (RANB) is a novel method for biopsying lung nodules. Our study objective was to determine the sensitivity for malignancy and overall diagnostic accuracy for RANB when combined with cone beam CT (CBCT) for secondary confirmation.
METHODS
52 consecutive patients were prospectively enrolled. Demographic data, nodule characteristics, procedural information, and follow-up results were obtained.
RESULTS
Mean patient age was 66, with the majority Caucasian (73%) females (65%) with a similar number of never (46%) and former (46%) smokers. 15 patients had a history of cancer and 3 had a prior thoracic surgery. 59 total nodules were included as 7 patients had two nodules biopsied. Mean nodule diameter was < 2 cm in all dimension with the majority solid (41, 70%) and located in the upper lobes (left: 22, 37%; right: 17, 29%). Bronchus sign was absent (32, 54%) or present (27, 46%) in a similar number. All nodules were successfully reached with nine (15%) requiring minor directional changes after initial cone beam CT. A tissue diagnosis was obtained in 83% (49/59) of biopsied nodules, with malignancy (31, 65%) most common. Including all biopsy results and follow-up imaging, we obtained an 84% (31/37) procedural sensitivity for malignancy and an overall 86% (51/59) diagnostic yield.
CONCLUSION
RANB with CBCT increases sensitivity for malignancy and diagnostic accuracy of lung nodule biopsies. Combining these modalities has the potential to shift the diagnostic approach to pulmonary nodules.
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Journal of affective disorders
Authors: Khan AJ, Maguen S, Straus LD, Nelyan TC, Gross JJ, Cohen BE
