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Table 9 Correlation between CT scan differential diagnoses and post-VATS biopsy consensus diagnoses

From: The efficacy of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lung biopsies in patients with interstitial lung disease: a retrospective study of 66 patients

Consensus diagnosis (after VATS biopsy)

No. of cases

Probable diagnosis at CT scan

  

UIP

HP

NSIP

Sarcoidosis

Malignancy

Other

Ambiguous

UIP

13

7 (54%)

0

0

0

0

2

4

HP

14

2 (14%)

5 (36%)

0

0

0

2

5

Sarcoidosis

6

1 (17%)

0

0

2 (33%)

0

0

3

NSIP

5

2 (40%)

0

1 (20%)

0

1 (20%)

1

0

Malignancy

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

  1. Proportional breakdown of preoperative “probable diagnoses at CT scan” given to consensus diagnoses of UIP, Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP), sarcoidosis, NSIP and malignancy.