Recent advances in therapeutic bronchoscopy1

Therapeutic bronchoscopy has come a long way from removal of foreign bodies to minimally invasive techniques in management of diseases like lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. This article discusses the exciting new techniques of therapeutic bronchoscopy namely; bronchosco...

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Veröffentlicht in:Swiss medical weekly 2012-05, Vol.142 (2122)
Hauptverfasser: Mehul Surjibhai Thakkar, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Christoph Thomas Bolliger
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Therapeutic bronchoscopy has come a long way from removal of foreign bodies to minimally invasive techniques in management of diseases like lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. This article discusses the exciting new techniques of therapeutic bronchoscopy namely; bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, bronchial thermoplasty, radiofrequency ablation, and use of fiducial markers in external beam irradiation.
ISSN:1424-3997
DOI:10.4414/smw.2012.13591