TY - JOUR AU - Guo, Shuliang AU - Li, Qiang AU - Jiang, Jinyue AU - Luo, Fengming AU - Li, Yishi AU - Jin, Faguang AU - Liu, Xinzhu AU - Wang, Hongwu AU - Chen, Ping AU - Bai, Chong AU - Dai, Haiyun AU - Huang, Haidong AU - Ye, Xianwei AU - Yi, Xianghua AU - Zhang, Jie AU - Wang, Changhui AU - Ke, Mingyao AU - Sun, Jiayuan AU - Feng, Jing AU - Zhou, Hongmei AU - Wu, Youru AU - Wang, Zhen AU - Ma, Yun AU - Li, Jing AU - Lv, Liping AU - Xie, Baosong AU - Hohenforst-Schmidt, Wolfgang AU - Ding, Weimin AU - Wang, Xiaoping AU - Yang, Junyong AU - Cai, Qingshan AU - Sun, Peng AU - Luo, Zhuang AU - Giri, Mohan AU - Working Committee on Interventional Pulmonology, on behalf of the AU - Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Respiratory Physicians’ Branch of AU - Interventional Pulmonology, Committee of AU - Tuberculosis, Chinese Society for AU - Association, Chinese Medical AU - Interventional Pulmonology, Chinese Western Association of PY - 2019 TI - Chinese expert consensus on the standardized procedure and technique of transbronchial cryobiopsy JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 11, No 12 (December 31, 2019): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBCB) is a technique to obtain frozen samples of lung tissue from the distal bronchioles, in which the tissue surrounding the tip of a cryoprobe inserted through the bronchoscope is frozen with a rapid freezing process and abruptly pulled away from adherent tissue. The advantages of TBCB are improved diagnostic yield, reduced trauma, large and high-quality specimens, potentially decreased complications, and lower cost in comparison to surgical lung biopsy (SLB). UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/34056