First author and year | Study design | Number of centers | Number of subjects | Length of follow-up | Diagnostic yield aided by ENB procedures (%) | Pneumothorax (%) |
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Becker 2005 [6] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 29 | N.R. | 69.0 | 3.4 |
Gildea 2006 [7] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 58 | Mean 10.5Â months | 74.1 | 3.5 |
Schwarz 2006 [8] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 13 | N.R. | 69.2 | 0.0 |
Eberhardt 2007a [9] | Prospective, RCT (EBUS only, ENB only, or combined) | Multi-center (2) | 39 (ENB alone) 40 (ENB + EBUS) | N.R. | 59.0 (ENB alone) 87.5 (ENB + EBUS) | 5.0 |
Eberhardt 2007b [10] | Prospective, single-arm | Multi-center (2) | 89 | N.R. | 67.4 | 2.2 |
Makris 2007 [11] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 40 | N.R. | 62.5 | 7.5 |
Wilson 2007 [12] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 222 | 6 – 18 months | 59.9 | 1.2 |
Bertoletti 2009 [13] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 53 | >18Â months | 77.4 | 4.0 |
Lamprecht 2009 [14] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 13 | N.R. | 76.9 | 0.0 |
Eberhardt 2010 [15] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 53 | N.R. | 75.5 | 1.9 |
Seijo 2010 [16] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 51 | N.R. | 66.7 | 0.0 |
Mahajan 2011 [17] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 48 | N.R. | 77.0 | 10.2 |
Brownback 2012 [18] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 55 | N.R. | 74.5 | 0.0 |
Jensen 2012 [19] | Retrospective, single-arm | Multi-center (5) | 92 | ≥6 months | 65.2 | 3.3 |
Lamprecht 2012 [20] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 112 | N.R. | 83.9 | 1.8 |
Pearlstein 2012 [21] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 101 | 2Â years | 85.1 | 5.8 |
Balbo 2013 [22] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 40 | N.R. | 70.7 | 0.0 |
Karnak 2013 [23] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 35 | ≥2 years | 91.4 | 3.9 |
Khan 2013 [24] | Prospective, single-arm | Single-center | 24 | N.R. | 75.0 | 0.0 |
Mohanasundaram 2013 [25] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 41 | ≤2 years | 89.4 | 13.0 |
Loo 2014 [26] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 40 | N.R. | 94.0 | 0.0 |
Odronic 2014 [27] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 91 | 1Â year | 85.7 | 5.3 |
Bowling 2015 [28] | Retrospective, single-arm | Single-center | 107 | ≥18 months | 73.6 | 2.5 |
Ost 2015 [29] | Retrospective | Multi-center | 39 (ENB a alone) 227 (ENB a + EBUS) | 1 year | 38.5 (ENB alone) 47.1 (ENB + EBUS) | 1.7 % |