TRACHEO-BRONCHOSCOPY.

Polish contributions to the history of direct tracheo-bronchoscopy.

THE INTRODUCTION of low direct tracheo-bronchoscopy is associated with the name of Professor Przemyslaw Pieniazek, founder of the Larynological Clinic in Cracow University, the first ear, nose, and throat clinic in Poland. Born in Warsaw on 20 November 1850, he was a medical student at the Jagellonian University in Cracow, where he graduated in 1874. Then he continued his postgraduate studies a...

Laryngo-tracheo-bronchial anesthesia for bronchoscopy and bronchography with pontocaine.

Management of difficult airways: which is the safest approach after reviewing virtual laryngo-tracheo-bronchoscopy imaging?

We would like to thank Dr. Sanfilippo et al. for their thoughtful comments regarding our recent article in AneStheSiology.1 We do agree that our phrase, “proper anesthetic induction” does not give a clear sense of what occurred during induction and intubation. however, because of wordcount limits, we were unable to elaborate further. More importantly, we wanted to focus on the usefulness of a n...

Laser Bronchoscopy

چرا لیزر در بیماری دستگاه تنفسی مفید است؟ لیزر در حال حاضر به عنوان یک تکنیک جراحی، جای خود را در بسیاری از زمینه ها از قبیل چشم پزشکی، جراحی اعصاب و ژنیکولوژی باز کرده است. از آنجائیکه، لیزر به عنوان یک درمان مؤثر برای رفع انسدادهای تنفسی شناخته شده و فاقد بعضی از مضرات جراحی های تهاجمی می باشد، کاربرد آن در بیماریهای تنفسی رو به افزایش است. البته کاربرد لیزر، تنها محدود به محل هایی است که با...

Laryngo-tracheo-oesophageal clefts

A laryngo-tracheo-esophageal cleft (LC) is a congenital malformation characterized by an abnormal, posterior, sagittal communication between the larynx and the pharynx, possibly extending downward between the trachea and the esophagus. The estimated annual incidence of LC is 1/10,000 to 1/20,000 live births, accounting for 0.2% to 1.5% of congenital malformations of the larynx. These incidence ...