This book covers all aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy, which go beyond
the techniques of inspection, simple lavage and biopsies of the tracheobronchial tree. In a …

The field of interventional pulmonology has grown significantly over the past several
decades now including the diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of complex airway disease …

Study objectives: To assess the efficacy and complications of interventional bronchoscopic
techniques in treating airway stenosis due to tracheobronchial tuberculosis. Design: Case …

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of different interventional bronchoscopic techniques for
the management of benign cicatricial hyperplasia airway stenosis, and to study the factors …

Background: Interventional rigid bronchoscopy for tracheobronchial stenosis can be
performed under total intravenous anesthesia and spontaneous-assisted ventilation …

Background Patients with malignant airway obstruction may need endobronchial
intervention to relieve the associated symptoms. We report our experience of interventional …

Background Idiopathic tracheal stenosis (ITS) is a rare condition representing a difficult
therapeutic challenge. Endoscopic management is a therapeutic option but long-term results …

Background: Malignant central airway obstruction may result in an Eastern Cooperative
Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) that precludes treatment with systemic …

Objectives Despite new therapeutic perspectives, the presence of central airways occlusion
(CAO) in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is associated …

Background and objective Rigid tracheobronchoscopy (RTB) has seen an increasing
interest over the last decades with the development of the field of IPM but no benchmark …