Fantin Alberto, Manera Massimiliano, Patruno Vincenzo, Sartori Giulia, Castaldo Nadia, Crisafulli Ernesto
Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital of Udine (ASUFC), 33100 Udine, Italy.
Respiratory Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Verona and Verona University Hospital, 37134 Verona, Italy.
Life (Basel). 2023 Jan 17;13(2):254. doi: 10.3390/life13020254.
Peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) are frequent incidental findings in subjects when performing chest radiographs or chest computed tomography (CT) scans. When a PPL is identified, it is necessary to proceed with a risk stratification based on the patient profile and the characteristics found on chest CT. In order to proceed with a diagnostic procedure, the first-line examination is often a bronchoscopy with tissue sampling. Many guidance technologies have recently been developed to facilitate PPLs sampling. Through bronchoscopy, it is currently possible to ascertain the PPL's benign or malignant nature, delaying the therapy's second phase with radical, supportive, or palliative intent. In this review, we describe all the new tools available: from the innovation of bronchoscopic instrumentation (e.g., ultrathin bronchoscopy and robotic bronchoscopy) to the advances in navigation technology (e.g., radial-probe endobronchial ultrasound, virtual navigation, electromagnetic navigation, shape-sensing navigation, cone-beam computed tomography). In addition, we summarize all the PPLs ablation techniques currently under experimentation. Interventional pulmonology may be a discipline aiming at adopting increasingly innovative and disruptive technologies.
周围型肺部病变(PPLs)在进行胸部X线片或胸部计算机断层扫描(CT)时,是受检者常见的偶然发现。当发现PPL时,有必要根据患者情况和胸部CT检查结果进行风险分层。为了进行诊断程序,一线检查通常是组织采样的支气管镜检查。最近开发了许多引导技术以方便PPL采样。通过支气管镜检查,目前可以确定PPL的良性或恶性性质,从而延迟具有根治性、支持性或姑息性意图的治疗第二阶段。在本综述中,我们描述了所有可用的新工具:从支气管镜器械的创新(如超细支气管镜和机器人支气管镜)到导航技术的进展(如径向探头支气管内超声、虚拟导航、电磁导航、形状感知导航、锥形束计算机断层扫描)。此外,我们总结了目前正在试验的所有PPL消融技术。介入肺脏病学可能是一门旨在采用越来越创新和颠覆性技术的学科。