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Hierarchical clock-scale hand-drawn mapping as a simple method for bronchoscopic navigation in peripheral pulmonary nodule

Journal

RESPIRATORY RESEARCH
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages -

Publisher

BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12931-022-02160-0

Keywords

Bronchoscopy; Peripheral pulmonary nodule; Hand-drawn bronchoscopic navigation; Virtual bronchoscopic navigation; Diagnostic yield

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81900032, 81770017]
  2. Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases [SKLRD-QN-201910]
  3. Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Project [202103010001]

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The study demonstrates that hierarchical clock-scale hand-drawn mapping can serve as a feasible and economical method for guiding peripheral pulmonary nodule biopsy. Compared with virtual bronchoscopic navigation, this method provides a comparable diagnostic yield and requires less planning pathway time, total operation time, and operating cost.
Background A feasible and economical bronchoscopic navigation method in guiding peripheral pulmonary nodule biopsy is lacking. Objective To investigate the utility of hierarchical clock-scale hand-drawn mapping for bronchoscopic navigation in peripheral pulmonary nodules. Methods We developed a hierarchical clock-scale hand-drawn mapping for bronchoscopic navigation in peripheral pulmonary nodules. Patients with peripheral pulmonary nodules were recruited and assigned to two groups in this retrospective study, subjects in VBN group received conventional bronchoscopy in conjunction with virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN) and radial probe endobronchial ultrasound (RP-EBUS) for biopsy (VBN group), while HBN group underwent ultrathin bronchoscopy and RP-EBUS under the guidance of hand-drawn bronchoscopic navigation (HBN). The demographic characteristics, procedural time, operating cost and diagnostic yield were compared between these two groups. Results Forty-eight patients with peripheral pulmonary nodule were enrolled in HBN group, while 42 in VBN group. There were no significant differences between VBN and HBN groups in terms of age, gender, lesion size, location and radiographic type. The time of planning pathway (1.32 vs. 9.79 min, P < 0.001) and total operation (23.63 vs. 28.02 min, P = 0.002), as well as operating cost (758.31 +/- 125.21 vs.1327.70 +/- 116.25 USD, P < 0.001) were markedly less in HBN group, compared with those in VBN group. The pathological diagnostic efficiency of benign and malignant disease in HBN group appeared similar with those in VBN group, irrespective of the size of pulmonary lesion (larger or smaller than 20 mm). The total diagnostic yield of HBN had no marked difference from that of VBN (75.00% vs. 61.90%, P = 0.25). Conclusions Hierarchical clock-scale hand-drawn mapping for bronchoscopic navigation could serve as a feasible and economical method for guiding peripheral pulmonary nodule biopsy, providing a comparable diagnostic yield in comparison with virtual bronchoscopic navigation.

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