Bronchial carcinoma is currently the most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The increasing incidence could be due to increased smoking habits, change in lifestyles, environmental pollution, and availability different modalities detect lung cancer. Fibreoptic bronchoscopy was introduced 1968 evaluate bronchopulmonary lesions. Since then, various methods for obtaining good speci...

he purpose of this report is to describe the auMATERIALS AND METHODS Tthor's experience with a bronchial brushing tech, Bronchial was a mdification of nique in the evaluation of peripheral lung tumors. the technique described by Fennessey.1 Using topical anesthesia, a Rush No. 18 cathetero0 is inserted intranasally into O From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Unithe trachea. Under ima...

Since the introduction of the flexible fibreoptic bronchoscope in the late 1960s there have been relatively few technological advances for three decades, aside from the development of a white light video bronchoscope with a miniature charge-coupled device built in its tip replacing the fibreoptics. White light flexible videobronchoscopy with its ancillary devices (forceps biopsy, bronchial brus...

In this study of 28 immunocompromised patients, it was found that Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia could be easily and reliably diagnosed by examination of routinely prepared, Papanicolaou-stained cellular samples obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage, bronchial brushing, and bronchial washing. The distinctive intra-alveolar exudate of pneumocystosis observed in lung biopsy specimens was readily dis...