Lung Cancer
Reports Summarize Lung Cancer Research from Royal Melbourne Hospital
Published in Cancer Weekly, July 5th, 2011
2011 JUL 5 -- According to the authors of recent research from Parkville, Australia, "Improved diagnostic sensitivity of bronchsocopy for the investigation of peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) with the use of radial probe endobroncial ultrasound (EBUS) has been reported, although diagnostic performance varies considerably. A systematic review of published literature evaluating radial probe EBUS accuracy was performed to determine point sensitivity and specificity, and to construct a summary receiver-operating characteristic curve."
"Sub-group analysis and linear regression was used to identify possible sources of study heterogeneity. 16 studies with 1,420...
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