Clinical Study
The Diagnostic Yield of Navigational Bronchoscopy Performed with Propofol Deep Sedation
Table 1
Baseline characteristics in 41 patients undergoing electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy*.
| Characteristic | Number (%) | Mean (±SEM) |
| Gender | | | Male | 40 (98) | | Female | 1 (2) | | Age (yr) | | 65 ± 1.55 | Lesion size (cm) | | 3.01 ± 0.21 | CT-to-body divergence (mm) | | 3.6 ± 0.15 | Lobar location | | | Right upper | 17 (36) | | Right middle | 2 (4) | | Right lower | 5 (10) | | Left upper | 8 (17) | | Lingula | 1 (2) | | Left lower | 14 (30) | | Positron emission tomography | | | Positive | 37 (79) | | Negative | 3 (6) | | Intermediate | 7 (15) | |
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*Six patients had two lesions, for a total sample size of 47.
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