Diagnosis of Peripheral Lung Lesions via Conventional Flexible Bronchoscopy with Multiplanar CT Planning

Table 4

Univariable logistic regression in predicting successful diagnosis of cancer or infection via bronchoscopy.

	OR (95% CI)	value
Age	0.991 (0.962–1.021)	0.5590
Lesion size	1.104 (0.941–1.314)	0.2445
Number of biopsies	0.904 (0.763–1.070)	0.2375
Bronchus sign
0 (absent)	Reference
1 (present)	1.745 (0.853–3.487)	0.1191
Pleural Apposition
0 (absent)	Reference
1 (present)	1.429 (0.742–2.779)	0.2870
Location
Lingular	Reference
LLL	1.857 (0.403–7.968)	0.4070
LUL	2.939 (0.635–12.827)	0.1510
RLL	2.612 (0.562–11.450)	0.2020
RML	3.810 (0.682–23.818)	0.1290
RUL	2.143 (0.51–8.052)	0.2670