Open AccessHistopathological yield in different types of bronchoscopic biopsies in proven cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Neha Gupta,
Gurmeet C Singh,
Manoj Kumar Rana
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/0377-4929.168881
Subject(s) - medicine , pathology , biopsy , bronchoscopy , lung , tuberculosis , h&e stain , overdiagnosis , stain , staining , granuloma , radiology
Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is difficult and often requires a lung biopsy. The goal of this retrospective study was to determine the histopathological parameters useful for diagnosis of pulmonary TB in different types of bronchoscopic biopsies (transbronchial lung biopsy [TBLB], transbronchial needle aspiration [TBNA], and bronchial biopsy [BB]).