Key result
Robotic-assisted transbronchial biopsy with cone-beam CT successfully diagnoses aortopulmonary small cell lung cancer without surgery.
Why the study?
Sampling aortopulmonary window lymph nodes is technically challenging and often requires surgical approaches.
Robotic-assisted transbronchial biopsy with cone-beam CT guidance is a feasible minimally invasive alternative to surgical mediastinal biopsy for sampling aortopulmonary window lymph nodes.
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May offer a less invasive diagnostic option for AP window nodes; leaves open validation against surgical staging.
Sampling aortopulmonary window lymph nodes is technically challenging and often requires surgical approaches. We report a minimally invasive robotic‐assisted transbronchial biopsy of AP window lymph nodes using cone‐beam CT guidance, enabling diagnosis of small cell lung cancer without surgical mediastinal biopsy.
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Venkatkiran Kanchustambham (2026) studied this question. Robotic-assisted transbronchial biopsy using cone-beam CT guidance enabled minimally invasive sampling of aortopulmonary window lymph nodes without requiring surgical mediastinal biopsy.
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