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[Diagnostic value of surgical lung biopsies for diffuse parenchymal lung disease:re-evaluation and new insight]
1Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
Abstract:
Surgical lung biopsy (SLB) has been clearly recommended for the diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD) in major guidelines because it provides the largest and most informative tissue samples. However, with the use of new non-invasive or minimally invasive tools in the diagnosis and treatment of DPLD, the dominance of SLB as the gold standard in the diagnosis of DPLD has been questioned, the diagnostic value of SLB for diffuse parenchymal lung should be re-evaluated.
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