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  • Title: Evaluation of unguided transbronchial biopsy in the diagnosis of pulmonary disease--its safety and efficacy as an out-patient procedure.
    Author: Suri JC, Goel A, Bhatia A, Kaushik PC.
    Journal: Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci; 1992; 34(2):57-64. PubMed ID: 1459663.
    Abstract:
    Sixty-five patients underwent unguided fiberoptic transbronchial biopsy on an out-patient basis. Satisfactory material for histopathological examination was obtained in 55 patients. A reasonably definite pathological diagnosis could be established in 51 patients. The commonest diagnosis arrived at was that of interstitial fibrosis. Complications were observed in 4 (6.2%) patients. Fiberoptic transbronchial biopsy is, therefore, a safe and efficacious out-patient technique for establishing a pathological diagnosis in patients with infiltrative, diffuse or localized pulmonary disease.
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