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Table 5 Lesions evaluation–multivariant analysis

From: Assessing the early returns of robotic-assisted bronchoscopy in a patient population at high risk for cancer: factors associated with a diagnostic procedure and pathologic outcomes

Characteristic

All

Diagnostic

Non-diagnostic

p value

Bronchus sign

25/56 (44.6%)

23/41 (56.1%)

2/15 (13.3%)

0.0005

BMI

26.3

25.2

29.1

0.09

Age

66.6

66.9

65.9

0.36

FEV1% predicted

 

80.8

79.2

0.43

Airways generations traveled

 

5.9

6.6

0.03

Days from CT to procedure

 

4.5

8.6

0.14

Distance airways-nodule

 

7.2

8.6

0.16

Distance nodule-pleura

 

15.5

8.5

0.017

ROSE used

15/56 (26.8%)

12.41 (29.3%)

3/15 (20%)

0.24

r-EBUS view

 Concentric

20/56

19/41 (46.3%)

1/15 (6.7%)

0.0002

 Eccentric

28/56

21/41 (51.2%)

7/15 (46.7%)

0.385

 None

8/56

1/41 (2.4%)

7/15 (46.7%)

0.003