Open AccessCryoprobe transbronchial lung biopsy: How we do it?
Author(s) -
Karan Madan,
Saurabh Mittal,
Nishkarsh Gupta,
Vijay Hadda,
Anant Mohan,
Randeep Guleria
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_52_17
Subject(s) - medicine , sarcoidosis , radiology , lung , lung biopsy , idiopathic interstitial pneumonia , biopsy , interstitial pneumonia , pathology
Transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) is commonly utilized for diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung diseases. TBLB has a high yield in granulomatous interstitial lung diseases like sarcoidosis, but small size of biopsies limits its utility in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. Surgical lung biopsy provides large size tissue, but there is associated morbidity, longer hospital stay, the risk of air leak, and mortality. Cryoprobe-TBLB, a relatively newer diagnostic procedure, provides larger biopsies than TBLB that are usually crush artifact free and enable the pathologist to provide diagnosis with greater confidence. We describe our technique of performing cryoprobe-TBLB.