Recent advances in therapeutic bronchoscopy
| Autor: | Bolliger Ct, von Groote-Bidlingmaier F, M S Thakkar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Neoplasms Radiofrequency ablation Therapeutic Bronchoscopy Pulmonary disease Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction law.invention External beam irradiation law Fiducial Markers Bronchoscopy Medicine Humans Lung cancer Pneumonectomy Asthma Bronchial thermoplasty business.industry General Medicine respiratory system medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Catheter Ablation Radiology business |
| Zdroj: | Swiss medical weekly. 142 |
| ISSN: | 1424-3997 |
| Popis: | Therapeutic bronchoscopy has come a long way from removal of foreign bodies to minimally invasive techniques in management of diseases like lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. This article discusses the exciting new techniques of therapeutic bronchoscopy namely; bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, bronchial thermoplasty, radiofrequency ablation, and use of fiducial markers in external beam irradiation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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