Autofluorescence bronchoscopy to identify pre-cancerous bronchial lesions

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Background. This study aimed to assess the diagnostic yield of autofluorescence bronchoscopy (AFB) in the detection of pre-cancerous bronchial lesions in a non-selected sample of patients. Methods. Both fiberoptic white-light bronchoscopy (WLB) and AFB using the Storz D-light system were performed on 166 consecutive patients. Biopsy specimens were taken in areas of the tracheobrouchial tree judged as abnormal or suspicious at WLB and/or AFB. The bronchoscopic procedures were randomly performed by two operators. Results. A total of 93 patients had a positive biopsy specimen: 80 for cancer and 13 for dysplasia. AFB was abnormal or suspicious in 85 of the 93 patients with a sensitivity of 91.4%. Specificity was 50.7%. In 16 patients with normal WLB examination, AFB identified abnormal or suspicious areas which had a positive biopsy. Thus AFB significantly improved sensitivity of WLB (100% vs 82.8%, respectively, p<0.001) in the entire sample of patients studied. Data was further analysed separately for patients with dysplasia and those with cancer. Indeed, 13 of 16 patients recognized only by AFB had a histological diagnosis of dysplasia. The remaining three patients had a diagnosis of cancer (small intraepithelial neoplastic lesions). Since no other patient with dysplasia was found, AFB had a sensitivity of 100% in diagnosing dysplasia. On the other hand, excluding the 13 patients with dysplasia, WLB had a high sensitivity in diagnosing cancer (93.7%). Conclusions. The AFB Storz system showed a high sensitivity. The increase in diagnostic yield of AFB in comparison with WLB was related to the power of AFB to identify pre-cancerous bronchial lesions so showing its usefulness in the early diagnosis of lung cancer.

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Fuso, L., Pagliari, G., Boniello, V., Trove’, A., Varone, F., Longobardi, A., … Trodella, L. (2005). Autofluorescence bronchoscopy to identify pre-cancerous bronchial lesions. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series, 63(3), 124–128. https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2005.628

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