Bronchoscopic profile of various diseases in a rural care hospital

Abstract

Flexible and rigid bronchoscopy is one of the most commonly employed procedures for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in the field of otorhinolaryngology, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and anesthesiology. We put forward the results of a prospective observational study wherein 100 patients with different diagnosis underwent either flexible bronchoscopy or rigid bronchoscopy for diagnostic / therapeutic use at a rural medical set up. [J Med Allied Sci 2017; 7(2.000): 87-91]

Keywords

• Bronchoscopy
• Diagnostic bronchoscopy
• Foreign bodies
• Therapeutic bronchoscopy