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Fig. 5 | BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Fig. 5

From: Correlation between percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy and recurrence in stage I lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Fig. 5

Relationship between PTNB and the pleural recurrence rate of the patients without sub-pleural lesions. Legends: Significant heterogeneity was found in the study (I2 = 51.3%, p = 0.128; Fig. 5). In patients without sub-pleural lesions, the total relative risk ratio (RR) was 1.827 (95% confidence interval, 0.339–9.872; p = 0.483; Fig. 5)

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