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Fig. 1 | BMC Pulmonary Medicine

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From: Usefulness and safety of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy for reassessment of treatment in the clinical course of diffuse parenchymal lung disease

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Study flowchart. TBLC was performed in 31 patients with diffuse parenchymal lung disease who underwent SLB followed by MDD and had disease progression. For each patient, clinical diagnosis, treatment strategy, and confidence level of treatment strategy based on clinical and radiological information with and without pathological information from TBLC were determined by Pulmonologist A, Pulmonologist B, and consensus between them. MDD, multi-disciplinary discussion; SLB, surgical lung biopsy; TBLC, transbronchial lung cryobiopsy

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