Is bronchoscopic lung biopsy helpful in the management of patients with diffuse lung disease?

Is bronchoscopic lung biopsy helpful in the management of patients with diffuse lung disease?To the Editors:We enjoyed reading the recent retrospective analysis by ENSMINGER and PRAKASH [1] of fluoroscopy-guided bronchoscopic lung biopsies (BLB) in patients with suspected diffuse lung disease, which concluded that BLB is a clinically useful test in ,75% of procedures.