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Fig. 1 | BMC Pulmonary Medicine

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From: Concordance between transbronchial lung cryobiopsy and surgical lung biopsy for interstitial lung disease in the same patients

Fig. 1

The study flowchart. Among 383 patients who underwent TBLC, 54 underwent sequential SLB. Two patients were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis before TBLC. A total of 52 patients were included in this study. The samples from TBLC and SLB were randomly labelled to mask the relationship between the two samples. The diagnosis was made in a stepwise manner and the concordance between the two biopsy approaches was analyzed

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BMC Pulmonary Medicine

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