RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Diagnostic bronchoscopy: state of the art
JF European Respiratory Review
JO EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY REVIEW
FD European Respiratory Society
SP 229
OP 236
DO 10.1183/09059180.00005710
VO 19
IS 117
A1 C. Dooms
A1 L. Seijo
A1 S. Gasparini
A1 R. Trisolini
A1 V. Ninane
A1 K.G. Tournoy
YR 2010
UL http://err.ersjournals.com/content/19/117/229.abstract
AB Since the introduction of the flexible fibreoptic bronchoscope in the late 1960s there have been relatively few technological advances for three decades, aside from the development of a white light video bronchoscope with a miniature charge-coupled device built in its tip replacing the fibreoptics. White light flexible videobronchoscopy with its ancillary devices (forceps biopsy, bronchial brushing, bronchoalveolar lavage, bronchial washings and transbronchial needle aspiration) has long been the only established diagnostic bronchoscopic technique. With the advances in microtechnology over the past two decades, recent technical developments such as autofluorescence bronchoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound allow better evaluation of endobronchial, mediastinal and parenchymal lesions.