Response to: 'Conventional bronchoscopic techniques in sarcoidosis: not too far behind’ by Dhooriaet al

We thank Dhooria et al 1 for their complimentary comments on our review article about linear endobronchial ultrasound.2 We congratulate them on their carefully performed randomised controlled trial comparing endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) in conjunction with transbronchial lung biopsies (TBLB) and endobronchial biopsies (EBB) with conventional non-ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (cTBNA) in conjunction with TBLB and EBB for the diagnosis …