title: [Diagnosis and therapy of lung abnormalities: current status].
abstract: Malformations of the lung must be detected early before the onset of complications. Therefore invasive diagnostic techniques are increasingly being replaced by less complicated methods such as sonography, colour-coded Doppler sonography, DSA and CT. In certain cases, angiography and thoracoscopy should not be renounced. The use of these methods is preferred in combination with nonoperative techniques: embolisation in av-aneurysms, endoluminal endoscopic resection of congenital bronchial stenoses, stabilization of the bronchial wall in valve mechanisms or thoracoscopical resection of a cyst using fibrin glue to seal the area of resection. These endoscopical procedures are simplified by the application of laser. The smaller the child the more obvious it's advantages.
authors.affiliation: Kinderchirurgische Abteilung Universitätsklinikum Steglitz, FU Berlin.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Waldschmidt
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schier
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation; D008168:Lung / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D020708:Thoracoscopes