Endobronchial cryobiopsy may shorten the time to cancer diagnosis: a retrospective study

Nela Stastna; Kristian Brat; Michaela Heroutova; Michal Svoboda; Ivan Cundrle

doi:10.1183/23120541.00179-2023

Endobronchial cryobiopsy may shorten the time to cancer diagnosis: a retrospective study

ERJ Open Res. 2023 Aug 29;9(4):00179-2023. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00179-2023. eCollection 2023 Jul.

Authors

Nela Stastna^{1

2}, Kristian Brat^{1

2

3}, Michaela Heroutova¹, Michal Svoboda⁴, Ivan Cundrle^{2

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic.
² Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
³ International Clinical Research Center, St Anne's University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁴ Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Ltd, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, St Anne's University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic.

Abstract

Endobronchial cryobiopsy from visualised intraluminal tumour lesions may decrease the rate of diagnostic failure and shorten the time to diagnosis https://bit.ly/3NkyJ98.