Steerable guiding sheaths in peripheral bronchoscopy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Grant Senyei; George Cheng
- Source
- Transl Lung Cancer Res
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Editorial
Oncology
Bronchoscopy
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine
Radiology
Lung cancer
medicine.disease
business
Peripheral
- Language
- ISSN
- 2226-4477
2218-6751
Endobronchial navigation is performed in a variety of ways, none of which are meeting all the clinicians' needs required to reach diagnostic success in every patient. We sought to characterize precurved and steerable guiding sheaths (GS) in endobronchial targeting for lung biopsy using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) based augmented fluoroscopy (AF) image guidance.Four precurved GS (EdgeThe steerable DT had the largest range of GS delivery angles (θEndobronchial needle delivery with AF guidance is feasible without a bronchoscope with steerable GS providing comparable or improved accuracy compared to precurved GS.