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Published on: January 17, 2011
The emerging role of flexible bronchoscopy in pediatrics
1Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. rewood@chmcc.org
Abstract:
Great advances had been made in rigid instrumentation, with the introduction of the glass rod telescope. With relatively few exceptions, however, bronchoscopy was still performed primarily for therapeutic indications, such as the removal of foreign bodies from the airway. It would remain for the introduction of the flexible bronchoscope to stimulate the widespread development of diagnostic bronchoscopy in pediatric practice.
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