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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 71, 309-313, Copyright © 1976 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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The use of bronchoscopic sponge biopsy in the diagnosis of pulmonary neoplasms

CW Akins, IK McMillan, C Sbokos, R Steele and RD Lea

A modified method of transbronchoscopic sponge biopsy is presented a series of 212 patients is discussed. A diagnostic accuracy rate of 89 per cent was obtained in the 159 cases of proved carcinoma. False- positive and false-negative results are discussed. This technique was found to be an easy, rapid, accurate, and inexpensive method of obtaining samples for cytologic evaluation in the preoperative work-up of patients with suspected pulmonary malignancies.




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