AB 101. Update on interventional bronchology techniques (original) (raw)

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2012

Abstract

In recent years rapid development of technology led to the increase in number of interventional bronchology techniques available for use in respiratory endoscopy units (REU). Many of techniques are not readily available for routine use in bronchology, however their appliance significantly increases diagnostic and therapeutic efficacy of bronchoscopy. Among diagnostic interventional bronchoscopy techniques recently advanced in REU of the Institute for pulmonary diseases of Vojvodina most facilitating are autofluorescence videobronchoscopy (AFI), narrow band imaging videobronchoscopy (NBI), radial and linear endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS). In recent years REU team published several significant clinical trials in domain of AFI, NBI and EBUS. These techniques became routine diagnostic tools for detection of lung cancer, tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, and other respiratory disorders. Therapeutic interventional bronchoscopy techniques routinely used in treatment of malignant and non-malignan...

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