Abstract:To study diagnostic value of CT-guided and enhanced CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy and endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial lung biopsy (EBUS-TBLB) in patients with pulmonary peripheral lesions. Methods In this study 452 patients suspected as pulmonary peripheral lesions from January 2012 to January 2014 were divided into conventional CT-guided group (180 cases), enhanced CT-guided group(132 cases) and EBUS-TBLB group (140 cases). Tissue-obtaining accuracy rate, accuracy rate of lung cancer diagnosis, incidences of complications, sensitivity, accuracy and specificity were compared among the three biopsy methods. Results The incidences of pneumothorax and hemoptysis or the increasing rate of hemoptysis in the EBUS-TBLB and enhanced CT-guided groups were significantly lower than those in the conventional CT-guided group ( p< 0.05). The incidence of pneumothorax in the EBUS-TBLB group was significantly lower than that in the enhanced CT-guided group (p < 0.05). The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of the three detection methods were high. The lesion diameter was in close correlations with pneumothorax incidence, and hemoptysis or hemoptysis increasing rate in the conventional CT-guided group (p < 0.05), and there was a close correlation between pneumothorax incidence and the lesion location in the conventional CT-guided and the enhanced CT-guided groups ( p< 0.05). Conclusions Conventional CT-guided and enhanced CT-guidedpercutaneous lung biopsy and EBUS-TBLB can be used as diagnostic methods of pulmonary peripheral lesions, among them EBUS-TBLB has the advantages of little injury and high safety.