Mini-invasive methods for diagnosis of diffuse interstitial lung disease

Abstract

The paper specifies a place of various invasive diagnostic methods in suspected diffuse interstitial lung disease. It considers the problems associated with transbronchial, video-assisted thoracoscopic, and open biopsy of lung tissue and intrathoracic lymph nodes in this pathology and analyzes the informative value and safety of these methods, as well as indications for and contraindications to their use.

Keywords

• interstitial lung diseases
• transbronchial biopsy
• video-assisted thoracoscopy