Table 4.

Comparison of overall yield of EBUS-TBNA in various studies

Studies	Number of Cases (patient selection)	MeanAge (years)	Overall Yield
Yasufuku et al. (2004)[7]	70 (suspected malignancy)	64.3	97.1
Rintoul et al. (2005)[13]	20 (known or suspected lung cancer)	65	72.2
Herth et al. (2006)[14]	502 (consecutive)	58.9	93.5
Nakajima et al. (2007)[15]	35 (intrapulmonary lesions adjacent to the central airway)	63.2	94.3
Gahlot T et al. (2017)[16]	100 (mediastinal lymphadenopathy)	47.1	92
Srinivasan et al. (2013)[17]	39 (consecutive)	43	94.9
Our study	217 (consecutive)	48.35	84.8