Background: An alveolar adenoma is a benign lung lesion that presents as solitary pulmonary nodule. Only few reports have been published on this disease, which typically diagnosed by wedge resection. Case presentation: We present 39 year old woman with multiple co-morbidities an incidental was utilizing CT-guided biopsy, she then suffered rare complication necessitating ICU admission. Conclusio...

BACKGROUND Although in some cases clinical and radiographic features may be sufficient to establish a diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), surgical lung biopsy is frequently required. Recently a new technique for bronchoscopic lung biopsy has been developed using flexible cryo-probes. In this study we describe our clinical experience using bronchoscopic cryobiopsy for diagnosis...

At present there is no satisfactory technique for repeated lung biopsy in recipients of heart-lung transplants. A new technique for lung biopsy, which might be adopted for this purpose, has been developed. A Teflon sheath is inserted through the jugular vein into the pulmonary artery with the aid of a balloon catheter. A flexible biopsy forceps is then introduced through the sheath into the pul...