title: Foreign body removal is getting "cooler".
abstract: Foreign body removal is commonly performed with the rigid bronchoscope. However, based on recent literature, extraction with the flexible bronchoscope has increased in popularity. Here, we discuss a new tool - the flexible cryoprobe - that may enhance foreign body retrieval in select patients and comment on the methods of foreign body extraction in the view of common clinical practice. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2016; 51:886-888. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, NYU Department of Pediatrics, 160, East 32nd Street FINK CENTER, New York 10016, New York.
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kazachkov
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Alfin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vicencio
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D017679:Cryotherapy; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans
keywords: bronchoscopy; foreign body of airway