Publications by authors named "Bruno Raby"
Background: Randomized trials have confirmed the benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy in improving survival in resected early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The extent to which these results have translated into clinical practice is unknown.
Objective: To examine the referral pattern of patients with resected lung cancer to adjuvant chemotherapy, and to compare compliance and toxicities with current literature.
Background: Virtual bronchoscopy (VB) could obviate flexible bronchoscopy (FB) if no endobronchial lesion is detected in patients presenting with a suspicion of malignancy. Our objectives were to evaluate the accuracy (in terms of sensitivity and specificity) of VB in detecting endobronchial lesions, and to determine the anatomical limit of detection of endobronchial lesions by VB.
Methods: This study involved, in a blind comparison of VB and FB, consecutive patients presenting with symptoms or plain chest radiography abnormalities raising the suspicion of pulmonary neoplasm.
Transthoracic needle biopsy in the diagnosis of solitary pulmonary nodules: a survey of Canadian physicians.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
September 2003
Objective: To describe Canadian physicians' opinions relative to the choice of diagnostic procedures in patients presenting with a solitary pulmonary nodule and to identify the attributes that may influence their decision.
Methods: We conducted a mailed survey among Canadian physicians including pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, radiologists, and internists. Five hypothetical clinical scenarios designed to illustrate a wide spectrum of clinical situations (including nodules associated to very low, indeterminate, and high probabilities of malignancy in patients medically fit or unfit to undergo surgical resection) were submitted to each physician who had to choose among options of diagnostic procedures and to estimate the pretest probability of malignancy.