title: Virtual bronchoscopy for diagnosis of inhalation injury in burnt patients.
abstract: Virtual bronchoscopy using a multislice CT scanner, is a new non-invasive imaging technique and its utility in the diagnosis of inhalation injury in burnt patients has not been reported in literature yet. Initial experience of technique is encouraging and it merits more interest. It overcomes many of the limitations of the presently established procedure of fibreoptic bronchoscopy. Ten burned patients with clinical suspicion of inhalation injury underwent this investigation and in eight of these the diagnosis was confirmed.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India. gores@vsnl.com
authors.forename: Madhuri A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gore
authors.forename: Anagha R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: Ganesh
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nagarajan
authors.forename: Sandhya P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.forename: Trupti
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khandelwal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D002059:Burns, Inhalation / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods