title: [The use of endoscopic techniques in the diagnostics of the lung cancer].
abstract: In modern pulmonology there are new sufficient and noninvasive diagnostic method for staging of lung cancer. Bronchoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool was introduced to medicine at the end of XIX and early XX century. Recently a new image technique such as endobronchial ultrasonography has been developed. This method has an effect on the qualitative changes in bronchoscopic investigation.
authors.affiliation: Pracownia Torakoskopii i Bronchoskopii, II Katedra Chorób Wewnetrznych, Collegium Medicum, Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków. mmsladek@cyf-kr.edu.pl
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sładek
mesh_terms: D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods; D014463:Ultrasonography