… Coulter and Mehta prospectively evaluated the influence of electrocautery on the need
for laser photoresection (63). Forty percent of the lesions evaluated were believed to be …

Overall survival rates of lung transplantation have improved since the first human lung
transplantation was performed. A decline in the incidence of airway complications (AC) had been …

Foreign body (FB) aspiration is a common problem worldwide and its incidence has not
decreased through time. Morbidity and mortality from nonasphyxiating tracheobronchial FBs, …

The Fleischner Society Guidelines for management of solid nodules were published in 2005,
and separate guidelines for subsolid nodules were issued in 2013. Since then, new …

Background Lung cancer is usually suspected in individuals who have an abnormal chest
radiograph or have symptoms caused by either local or systemic effects of the tumor. The …

… 1 , PN Mathur, JF Beamis, HD Becker, S Cavaliere, H Colt, JP Diaz-Jimenez, JF Dumon,
E Edell, KL Kovitz, HN Macha, AC Mehta, M Marel, M Noppen, J Strausz, TG Sutedja; …

Background Lung cancer is usually suspected in individuals who have an abnormal chest
radiograph finding or have symptoms caused by either local or systemic effects of the tumor. …

Rationale: Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy using superDimension/Bronchus System
is a novel method to increase diagnostic yield of peripheral and mediastinal lung lesions. …

We conducted a prospective multi-institutional clinical study involving community hospitals
and academic medical centers to more carefully define the value of computerized …

Myeloperoxidase (MPO), a heme enzyme secreted by activated phagocytes, generates an
array of oxidants proposed to play critical roles in host defense and local tissue damage. Both …