Author | Year | Disease involved | Type of study | Specimen size TBLC/TBLB | Diagnostic yield% TBLC/TBLB |
Badiak | 2009 | ILD’s | Retrospective | 15.11 mm2/5.82 mm2 | 95.12/58.53 |
Griff | 2011 | ILD | Retrospective Clinical trial | 17.1 mm2/3.8 mm2 | 92.7/78 |
Pajares | 2014 | ILD | Randomized trial | 14.7 mm2/3.3 mm2 | 74.4/34.1 |