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. 2021 Mar 25;57(3):2002537. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02537-2020

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

a) The delivery of fibre-based optical endomicroscopy (OEM), in conjunction with navigational bronchoscopy, to access a distal solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) in the clinical setting. Computed tomography (CT) and OEM images from an individual patient presenting with an SPN: b) CT demonstrating solid SPN; c) OEM image demonstrating surrounding healthy elastin structure; d) OEM image demonstrating distorted, abnormal elastin structure within the SPN (subsequently confirmed as benign on histopathological analysis) [35].