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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2018 Apr;25(2):88–96. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0000000000000401

Table 3.

Diagnoses Established by Cryobiopsy

Diagnosis Histopathological diagnoses (n=46) Consensus diagnoses (n=71)
IPF/UIP 19 22
HP 3 8
Chronic aspiration 7
CB 4 4
CTD-ILD 4
NSIP 2 3
BO 3 3
Sarcoidosis 2 3
Malignancy 2 2
RB/RB-ILD 2 2
OP 4
 due to drug 2
 Cryptogenic 2
Normal lung / no DPLD 1 2
DIP 1 1
FB 1 1
PAP 1 1
Silicosis 1 1
Fungal infection 1
Asbestosis 1
Drug Pneumonitis 1

Presented as number of diagnoses. IPF = idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; UIP = usual interstitial pneumonia; HP = hypersensitivity pneumonitis; CB = constrictive bronchiolitis; CTD-ILD = connective tissue disease-related interstitial lung disease; NSIP = nonspecific interstitial pneumonia; BO = bronchiolitis obliterans; RB = respiratory bronchiolitis; OP = organizing pneumonia; DPLD = diffuse parenchymal lung disease; DIP = desquamative interstitial pneumonia; FB = follicular bronchiolitis; PAP = protein alveolar proteinosis;

An additional case, not included in the annotated count, was later diagnosed by surgical lung biopsy.