The noninferiority trial included 234 adults (five lost to follow-up) who were referred to seven sites across the U.S. for ...

[24] More recent literature on CT-guided lung biopsies demonstrates a definite ... surgical correlation and validation of percutaneous biopsy results were not performed because several of our ...

scans and are found even more commonly on screening low-dose CT scans. Most lung nodules are harmless. However, approximately 5% of nodules are cancerous, and a small minority of benign nodules ...

Each year, millions of pulmonary nodules are identified incidentally or through lung cancer screening ... tomography–guided transthoracic needle biopsy are commonly used in patients undergoing ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, according to the American Cancer Society, with more people dying each year of lung cancer than of colon, breast, and ...

known as the Flexision Biopsy Needle, can also pass through tight bends to collect tissue samples from peripheral lung nodules. Additionally, the catheter includes a 2mm working channel ...

In patients with > 1 lung nodule, the largest ... of the coaxial introducer needle as well as the biopsy needle was confirmed using CT fluoroscopy. An on-site cytotechnologist was present for ...