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Background Convenient approaches for accurate biopsy are extremely important to the diagnosis of lung cancer. We aimed to systematically review the clinical updates and development trends of approaches for biopsy, i.e., CT-guided PTNB (Percutaneous Transthoracic Needle Biopsy), ENB (Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy), EBUS-TBNA (Endobroncheal Ultrasonography-Transbronchial Needle Aspiration), mediastinoscopy and CTC (Circulating Tumor Cell). Methods Medline and manual searches were performed. We identified the relevant studies, assessed study eligibility, evaluated methodological quality, and summarized diagnostic yields and complications regarding CT-guided PTNB (22 citations), ENB(31 citations), EBUS-TBNA(66 citations), Mediastinoscopy(15 citations) and CTC (19 citations), respectively. Results The overall sensitivity and specificity of CT-guided PTNB were reported to be 92.52% ± 3.14% and 97.98% ± 3.28%, respectively. The top two complications of CT-guided PTNB was pneumothorax (946/4170:22.69%) and hemorrhage (138/1949:7.08%). The detection rate of lung cancer by ENB increased gradually to 79.79% ± 15.34% with pneumothorax as the top one complication (86/1648:5.2%). Detection rate of EBUS-TBNA was 86.06% ± 9.70% with the top three complications, i.e., hemorrhage (53/8662:0.61%), pneumothorax (46/12432:0.37%) and infection (34/11250:0.30%). The detection rate of mediastinoscopy gradually increased to 92.77% ± 3.99% with .hoarseness as the refractory complication (4/2137:0.19%). Sensitivity and specificity of CTCs detection by using PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) were reported to be 78.81% ± 14.72% and 90.88% ± 0.53%, respectively. Conclusion The biopsy approaches should be chosen considering a variety of location and situation of lesions. CT-guided PTNB is effective to reach lung parenchyma, however, diagnostic accuracy and incidence of complications may be impacted by lesion size or needle path length. ENB has an advantage for biopsy of smaller and deeper lesions in lung parenchyma. ENB plus EBUS imaging can further improve the detection rate of lesion in lung parenchyma. EBUS-TBNA is relatively safer and mediastinoscopy provides more tissue acquisition and better diagnostic yield of 4R and 7th lymph node. CTC detection can be considered for adjuvant diagnosis.

Clinical updates of approaches for biopsy of pulmonary lesions based on systematic review Research article Open access Published: 03 September 2018 Volume 18 , article number 146 ( 2018 ) Cite this article You have full access to this open access article Download PDF Save article View saved research BMC Pulmonary Medicine Aims and scope Submit manuscript Clinical updates of approaches for biopsy of pulmonary lesions based on systematic review Download PDF Abstract Background Convenient approaches for accurate biopsy are extremely important to the diagnosis of lung cancer. We aimed to systemati

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