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SUBMITTER: Jiang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7180606 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Simin S Xie Fangfang F Mao Xiaowei X Ma Haifeng H Sun Jiayuan J
Thoracic cancer 20200304 5
<h4>Background</h4>To compare the diagnostic yield of peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) with and without navigation system.<h4>Methods</h4>Studies dating from January 1990 to October 2019 were collected from databases. Diagnostic yield of navigation bronchoscopy and non-navigation bronchoscopy was extracted from comparative studies. Subgroup analysis was adopted to test diagnostic yield variation by lesion size, lobe location of the lesion, distance from the hilum, bronchus sign and nature of ...[more]