Diagnostic yield and safety of diagnostic techniques for pulmonary lesions: systematic review, meta-analysis and network meta-analysis.

Prasanth BalasubramanianDavid Abia-TrujilloAlana Barrios-RuizAna Garza-SalasAnoop KoratalaNikitha C ChandraAlejandra Yu Lee-MateusGonzalo LabarcaSebastian Fernandez-Bussy

Published in: European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society (2024)

Although CT-TBNA is the most effective approach to sample PPLs, RAB has a comparable diagnostic yield with a lesser complication rate. Further prospective studies are needed comparing CT-TBNA and RAB.

Keyphrases

systematic review
meta analyses
computed tomography
case control
image quality
dual energy
contrast enhanced
randomized controlled trial
positron emission tomography