Table 4.
Patients with record of Biopsy by typea
| CT guided biopsy | Bronchoscopy | Surgical biopsy | Total procedures | Unique # of patients | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lung cancer DX | SPN only | lung cancer DX | SPN only | lung cancer DX | SPN only | lung cancer DX | SPN only | lung cancer DX | SPN only | |
| Total number of procedures, N (%) | 628 (42.75) | 271 (19.32) | 710 (48.33) | 970 (69.14) | 131 (8.92) | 162 (11.55) | 1469 | 1403 | 1167 (100.00) | 932 (100.00) |
| 1st biopsy | 500 (42.84) | 231 (24.79) | 637 (54.58) | 618 (66.31) | 30 (2.57) | 83 (8.91) | 1167 | 932 | 1167 (100.00) | 932 (100.00) |
| 2nd biopsy | 110 (42.97) | 33 (16.18) | 65 (25.39) | 114 (55.88) | 81 (31.64) | 57 (27.94) | 256 | 204 | 256 (21.94) | 204 (21.89) |
| 3rd biopsy | 15 (39.47) | 7 (8.64) | 7 (18.42) | 59 (72.84) | 16 (42.11) | 15 (18.52) | 38 | 81 | 38 (3.26) | 81 (8.69) |
| > 4 or more biopsy | 3 (37.50) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (12.50) | 179 (96.24) | 4 (50.00) | 7 (3.76) | 8 | 186 | 6 (0.51) | 46 (4.94) |
afrom REACHnet database. Bronchoscopy includes EBUS. Surgical includes mediastinoscopy. Pleural biopsy excluded