The emerging role of flexible bronchoscopy in pediatrics.
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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Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. rewood@chmcc.org
D001980:Bronchi; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002648:Child; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000175:diagnosis; D015607:Stents