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“approached significance”

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6 A previous study analyzing diagnostic accuracy similarly did not find significant risk factors for a nondiagnostic sample when using a core needle, though the depth of the lesion from the pleural surface approached significance. 22 Another showed that nondiagnostic biopsies were most likely to occur when there was a moderate or high pretest probability of infection, as opposed to malignancy, though this study was performed with fine needle aspirations as opposed to core needle biopsies. 23 Only a handful of studies analyzing risk factors for nondiagnostic and complication rates of core needle lung biopsies have recorded operator experience as a variable, making our study unique.