title: [Bronchial endoscopy in respiratory disease].
abstract: Less than 50 years after the birth of the fiberoptic bronchoscope, bronchial endoscopy had had a considerable progress and has found a wide diffusion of its applications to many respiratory diseases. The author briefly explains the most important and used applications, wishing this diagnostic therapeutical method will soon become an independent discipline.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chirurgia Generale, Toracica e Vascolare, Università Federico II, Napoli. fraioli@unina.it
authors.forename: Gaetano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fraioli
mesh_terms: D001999:Bronchoscopy; D006801:Humans; D012120:Respiration Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*