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The purpose of this study was to retrospectively assess the diagnostic accuracy of CT-guided TCNB of small pleural lesions and determine the incidence of complications.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This retrospective study included a total of 56 patients (45 men and 11 women; mean [\u00b1\u2009SD] age, 71.84\u2009\u00b1\u200910.11 years) with small costal pleural lesions (thickness of &lt;\u200910\u00a0mm) who underwent TCNB performed at the Department of Radiology from January 2015 to July 2021. One of the inclusion criteria for this study was a loculated pleural effusion greater than 20\u00a0mm, with a nondiagnostic cytological analysis. Sensitivity, specificity and positive as well as negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) were calculated.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The sensitivity of CT-guided TCNB for the diagnosis of small pleural lesions in this study was 84.6% (33 of 39), specificity 100% (17 of 17), PPV 100% (33 of 33), and NPV 73.9% (17 of 23), while diagnostic accuracy was 89.3% (50 of 56). The overall diagnostic contribution of TCNB in our study is comparable with the results of other recent reports. Loculated pleural effusion was considered a protective factor since no complications were noted.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>CT-guided transthoracic core needle biopsy (TCNB) is an accurate diagnostic method for small suspected pleural lesions with a near-zero complication rate in the presence of loculated pleural effusion.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s40644-023-00569-4","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,22]],"date-time":"2023-05-22T07:02:41Z","timestamp":1684738961000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["CT-guided transthoracic core needle biopsies of focal pleural lesions smaller than 10\u00a0mm: a retrospective study"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Melita","family":"Kukuljan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ena","family":"Mr\u0161i\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9999-9886","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eduard","family":"O\u0161tarija\u0161","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"569_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Havelock T, Teoh R, Laws D, Gleeson F, Group BTSPDG. 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