According to the literature source of study, an assessment was performed whether cone-beam computed tomography (cbct) imaging can improve navigation and diagnosis of peripheral lesions by 2 clinical workflows with a cross-over design: (1) a primary cbct and radial endobronchial ultrasound mini probe imaging¿based approach and (2) a primary electromagnetic navigation (emn) and radial endobronchial ultrasound mini probe imaging¿based approach.Eighty-seven patients with 107 lesions were included and randomly assigned to study arms.Observed complications across both study arms were as follows; pneumothorax (n=3), copd exacerbation following the procedure (n=1), moderate bleeding intraprocedurally following cryobiopsy (n=1), and minor fever ( <(><<)> 4h, n=1).All study subjects¿except 1 having pneumothorax requiring chest tube and 1 case of copd exacerbation¿were able to return home the same day.
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