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Systematic Bronchoscopy: the Four Landmarks Approach
Published on: June 23, 2023
Recent advances in therapeutic bronchoscopy
Mehul Surjibhai Thakkar1, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Christoph Thomas Bolliger
1University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa.
Abstract:
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.
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