The Comparison of Uniportal and Tubeless Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery and Transbronchial Lung Cryobiopsy in the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease

Inclusion Criteria: 1. 18 yrs ≤ age\<75yrs 2. Patients diagnosed as interstitial lung disease with comprehensive clinical data (including history, serological test, spirometry test and high resolution computed tomography) 3. Further pathological data was still required after multidisciplinary discussion. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Severe pulmonary dysfunction: forced vital capacity (FVC) ≤65% or carbon-monoxide diffusion coefficient (DLco) ≤45% of predicted value 2. Pulmonary hypertension: An estimated systolic pulmonary artery pressure\>50mmHg on echocardiography 3. Abnormal coagulation parameters or thrombocytopenia (\<50\*109/L) 4. Severe comorbidities leading to inoperable condition 5. Patients cannot give consent or refuse biopsy