Predictive Factors of Nonmalignant Pathological Diagnosis and Final Diagnosis of Ultrasound-Guided Cutting Biopsy for Peripheral Pulmonary Diseases

Table 5

Nonrepeated biopsies with final malignant diagnosis and methods by which their true diagnoses were determined (n = 58).

Malignancy (n = 58)	TBLB	TBNA	Lymph node (biopsy)	Smear cell and cell block	Open thoracotomy	Follow-up
Small cell lung cancer	5	2	1
Squamous cell carcinoma	19	1	1
Adenocarcinoma	7	2	1	2	3
Pulmonary mucoepidermoid carcinoma	1
Lung adenosquamous carcinoma		1
Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma		1
Pulmonary sequestration	1				2
Mixed epithelial-mesenchymal tumor					1
Metastasis
Clinically malignancy						9