Diagnostic Yield of Combined Pulmonary Cryobiopsies and Electromagnetic Navigation in Small Pulmonary Nodules

Figure 1

Flowchart summarizing the management of patients with pulmonary nodules from 8 to 20 mm in diameter without locoregional or distant metastasis with the frequencies in each category. Benign diseases consisted in tuberculosis in three patients, sarcoidosis in one patient, and cryptogenic organizing pneumonia in one patient. Abbreviations: ENB = electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy; EBUS = endobronchial ultrasonography; TBB = transbronchial biopsy; TBLC = transbronchial lung cryobiopsy.