Research Article
Predictive Factors of Nonmalignant Pathological Diagnosis and Final Diagnosis of Ultrasound-Guided Cutting Biopsy for Peripheral Pulmonary Diseases
Table 2
Distribution of nonmalignant diagnoses for initial biopsies and final diagnoses.
| | Initial pathological diagnosis | Final |
| | Nonmalignant diagnosis | Category of nonmalignancy | Benign | Malignant |
| | Specific benign (162, 34.5%) | Tuberculosis (102) | 157 (96.9%) | 5 (3.1%) | | Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor (34) | | Solitary fibrous tumor (1) | | Neurilemmoma (3) | | Pulmonary cryptococcosis (19) | | Pulmonary aspergillosis (2) | | Pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma (1) |
| | Nonspecific benign (257, 54.7%) | Organized pneumonia (58) | 212 (82.5%) | 45 (17.5%) | | Interstitial lung disease (16) | | Granulomatous inflammation (19) | | Abscess (25) | | Fibrosis process (12) | | Inflammatory process NOS (127) |
| | Inconclusive result (51, 10.9%) | Atypical cell present (11) | 1 (9.1%) | 10 (90.9%) | | Insufficient (40) | 17 (42.5) | 23 (57.5%) |
| | Total | 470 | 387 | 83 |
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Notes: NOS = not otherwise specified.
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