Background: Respiratory diseases are commonly present and mostly diagnosed on routine clinical assesment and non invasive investigations. However some of the diseases are still undiagnosed and required invasive methods. FOB is one of the important invasive tool for diagnosis of diseases. Despite, recent technical innovations in bronchoscopy, routine FOB is practiced with high yield and cost eff...

Introduction: Cytological evaluation is an important, usually initial diagnostic modality in patients with suspected malignant lung masses. Bronchoscopic washing, bronchoalveolar lavage, bronchial brushing and fine needle aspirations may complement tissue biopsies the diagnosis of cancer. This study was undertaken to compare efficacy wash cytology correlate it histopathology cases cancer at a t...

BACKGROUND The role of conventional bronchoscopy for peripheral pulmonary neoplasia remains controversial. We aimed to assess the diagnostic yield and the added value of non-guided bronchial aspiration, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), and brushing for the diagnosis of pulmonary neoplasia not visible endoscopically. METHODS We retrospectively assessed 207 consecutive patients with a final diagno...

Although appropriate antibiotics may improve survival in patients with bacterial pneumonia, use of empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics in patients without infection is potentially harmful, facilitating colonization and superinfection with multiresistant microorganisms. Invasive diagnostic methods, including bronchoalveolar lavage and/or protected-specimen bronchial brushing, could improve iden...