Experts say diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), tuberculosis, and lung cancer pose significant ...

17-19 Patients were excluded if the nodule was accessible without navigation (e.g., if they had a central endobronchial lesion), if the patient had a separate condition for which linear ...

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TBNA may be used to obtain a sample by altering the technique in order to directly place the needle into the endobronchial lesion. For peripheral lesions, fluoroscopy is used to localize the lesion.

She was managed as a case of worsening bronchial asthma, until a CT scan was performed to investigate anaemia, incidentally identified an obstructing lesion in her left main bronchus (figure 1). She ...

If an abnormal mass, lesion, or lymph node is found, the healthcare provider can obtain a tissue sample with the transbronchial aspiration needle. Most people tolerate endobronchial ultrasound well ...

When symptoms do occur in an early stage (e.g., endobronchial tumors), they include ... Before a biopsy is performed to sample the lesion, risk stratification of nodules identified on imaging ...

He underwent a diagnostic bronchoscopy that showed a lobulated endobronchial lesion obstructing the left upper lobe bronchus. Brush and forceps biopsies were obtained that were consistent with an ...

The physical examination was without particularities. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed a swollen endobronchial lesion completely obstructing the orifice of the intermediate trunk. Bronchial biopsies at ...

The exclusion criteria comprised evidence of endobronchial disease revealed by chest CT ... Because others have shown that bronchoscopic diagnostic yield is associated with lesion size8 and physician ...

A cavitary lung lesion is defined radiographically as a lucent area contained ... adequate trial with appropriate antibiotics may necessitate percutaneous drainage, endobronchial drainage, or, rarely, ...