Guideline
Chinese expert consensus on the standardized procedure and technique of transbronchial cryobiopsy
Shuliang Guo, Qiang Li, Jinyue Jiang, Fengming Luo, Yishi Li, Faguang Jin, Xinzhu Liu, Hongwu Wang, Ping Chen, Chong Bai, Haiyun Dai, Haidong Huang, Xianwei Ye, Xianghua Yi, Jie Zhang, Changhui Wang, Mingyao Ke, Jiayuan Sun, Jing Feng, Hongmei Zhou, Youru Wu, Zhen Wang, Yun Ma, Jing Li, Liping Lv, Baosong Xie, Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, Weimin Ding, Xiaoping Wang, Junyong Yang, Qingshan Cai, Peng Sun, Zhuang Luo, Mohan Giri, on behalf of the Working Committee on Interventional Pulmonology, Respiratory Physicians’ Branch of Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Committee of Interventional Pulmonology, Chinese Society for Tuberculosis, Chinese Medical Association, Chinese Western Association of Interventional Pulmonology
Abstract
Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBCB) is a technique to obtain frozen samples of lung tissue from the distal bronchioles, in which the tissue surrounding the tip of a cryoprobe inserted through the bronchoscope is frozen with a rapid freezing process and abruptly pulled away from adherent tissue. The advantages of TBCB are improved diagnostic yield, reduced trauma, large and high-quality specimens, potentially decreased complications, and lower cost in comparison to surgical lung biopsy (SLB).
