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Percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy of the lung. A study of 1,015 patients.
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Benign DiagnosisInterventional PulmonologyAdvanced Lung DiseasePathologySurgeryLung TissueOncologyCancer DetectionSurgical PathologyNovember 1983Cancer ResearchRadiologyHistopathologyCancer DiagnosisPulmonary FibrosisPulmonary MedicinePulmonary BlastomaLung CancerMultiple Pulmonary NoduleBronchial NeoplasmLung MechanicsThoracic SurgeryMedicine
From the time of its introduction, in 1973, through November 1983, fine needle aspiration biopsy ( FNAB ) of the lung was used in the diagnostic evaluation of 1,015 patients at the Duke University Medical Center and Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center. A diagnosis of a primary lung cancer was established in 49.4% of the cases and malignant neoplasm metastatic to the lung in 14.1%; a benign diagnosis was made in 31.1% and an inconclusive one in 5.4%. In 123 patients in whom lung tissue was also available, cancer was correctly diagnosed by FNAB in 83.8%, not diagnosed by FNAB in 14.6% and incorrectly diagnosed in 1.6%. In 37 patients without cancer, FNAB detected an infectious organism or a specific morphologic type of inflammation (abscess and granuloma).