[Draft] BF Existing Evidence Map

This article reported that the VBN (Bf-Navi) made the diagnostic yield for small peripheral pulmonary lesions increase

This article reported that the VBN (Bf-Navi) made the diagnostic yield for small peripheral pulmonary lesions increase

This article reported that EBUS/GS method with VBN could guide bronchoscope and sampling devices to lesions, and adding fluoroscopy to them improved the accuracy of sampling.

This article reported that this novel tip-tracked EMN system can guide biopsy with a high degree of success and with a low complication rate.

This article reported that EMN is safe and provides a new noninvasive diagnostic option for smaller peripheral lung lesions and enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes.

This article reported that the diagnostic yield of the ultrathin bronchoscopy method is higher than that of the conventional bronchoscopy with a guide sheath metod.

This article reported that technological advances in bronchoscope design (rotational-head) may have the potential to improve procedural ergonomics.

This article reported that multimodal bronchoscopy using a Ultrathin Bronchoscope afforded a higher diagnostic yield than that using a thin bronchoscope in the diagnosis of small peripheral pulmonary lesions.

This article reported that the diagnostic yield of guided bronchoscopic techniques is better than that of traditional transbronchial biopsy. Although the yield remains lower than that of TTNA, the procedural risk is lower.

This article reported that test performance characteristics of EBUS transbronchial lung biopsy for the investigation of PPLs is very good, with excellent specificity and sensitivity markedly higher than for routine bronchoscopy.

This article reported that r-EBUS has an excellent safety profile,

This article reported that they did not observe a superior yield of cryobiopsy as compared with forceps biopsy for PPL.

This article reported that R-EBUS performed well in diagnosing PPLs with a low complication rate. Lesions >2 cm, malignant in nature, associated with a CT BS and those biopsied with the R-EBUS probe in them have a higher diagnostic yield.

This article reported that transbronchial lung biopsy for lesions (> 2 cm but 3 cm) combined with rEBUS and VBN achieves a relatively acceptable diagnostic yield with a lower risk of adverse events than CT-guided lung biopsy.

This article suggested that fluoroscopy-guided TBNA is a useful and safe diagnostic technique for the diagnosis of PPLs,

This article reported that there is no difference in the overall diagnostic yield between 19 and 21 G needles. Further studies are needed to confirm the trend of the superiority of 19 G in cancerous lymph nodes.​

This article reported that EBUS-FNA cytology specimen is suitable for PD-L1 testing in patients with advanced NSCLC. The metastatic tumors in mediastinal lymph nodes appear to have higher PD-L1 expression than primary lesions.​

This article reported that NGS can be reliably performed on cytology smears obtained from EBUS-TBNA. The size of the needle does not seem to affect the success rate of small or large panel NGS tests.​

This article reported that, with higher sensitivity, advanced bronchoscopy could be valuable to avoid missed diagnosis and combining strategy of AFB and WLB may contribute preferable diagnosis rather than their alone use for high-grade lesions.

This study showed that in the evaluation of bronchial cancers, AFI was superior to conventional WLB. With its higher sensitivity, AFI could be valuable for avoiding misdiagnosis.

This study reported that narrow-band imaging was superior to white light bronchoscopy with respect to detecting early and invasive lung cancer; however, the specificities of the two modalities did not differ significantly.​

This article reported that NBI is an alternative to AFI in the detection of early lung cancers because it has a comparatively higher specificity without significantly compromising the sensitivity.​

This article reported that ultrasound elastography is useful in differentiating malignant and benign lymph nodes during endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration.

This article reported EBUS elastography is a valuable technology in the differentiation of benign and malignant hilar and mediastinal LNs

This article reported that the combined evaluation of CT‐negative LNs using EBUS elastofraphy images and B-mode sonographic images may help bronchoscopists perform EBUS‐TBNA more efficiently.​