Table 3.
Final Diagnoses
| Bronchoscopic Diagnoses | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| All (n = 94) | SB-F (n = 32) | TB-EBUS (n = 62) | |
| Malignant | 81 | 27 | 54 |
| NSCLC | 11 | 6 | 5 |
| Adenocarcinoma | 43 | 13 | 30 |
| Squamous cell | 18 | 4 | 14 |
| Small cell | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Large cell | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Neuroendocrine | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Other | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Benign | 13 | 5 | 8 |
| Granuloma | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Inflammationa | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Other | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Follow-up Diagnoses (Up to 1 y After Procedure) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| All (n = 90) | SB-F (n = 40) | TB-EBUS (n = 50) | |
| Malignant | 58 | 28 | 30 |
| NSCLC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Adenocarcinoma | 35 | 13 | 22 |
| Squamous cell | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Small cell | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Large cell | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Neuroendocrine | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Other | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| Benign | 22 | 8 | 14 |
| Granuloma | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Inflammation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pneumonia | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Other | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Lesion resolved | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Lesion stable in size | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Lesion smaller in size | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| No formal diagnosis | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| Enlarging | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Presumed malignant/treated empirically | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Lost to follow-up | 13 | 6 | 7 |
NSCLC = non-small cell lung cancer. See Table 2 legend for expansion of other abbreviations.
a
Inflammation was considered benign with a bronchoscopic diagnosis and resolution on 1-y follow-up.