Tracheobronchial foreign body (FB) aspiration is an uncommon but potentially life-
threatening event in adults. Symptoms typically consist of a choking event followed by cough …

Foreign bodies can gain entrance to the body through several mechanisms, ie, ingestion,
aspiration, and purposeful insertion. For each of these common entry mechanisms, this …

Background Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy is a rapid, cost effective and safe procedure.
Aim To analyze demographic information and endoscopic findings in adult patients with …

Purpose Interventional pulmonology is a growing subspecialty of pulmonary medicine with
flexible and rigid bronchoscopies increasingly used by interventional pulmonologists for …

Background: Rigid bronchoscopy remains the gold standard in many countries to remove
airway foreign bodies (FBs). We aimed to analyze the feasibility of airway FB removal in …

Aim Our aim was to summarise the evidence about flexible bronchoscopy for paediatric
airway foreign body aspiration cases. Methods We searched the PubMed database from 1 …

Background The present retrospective study investigated the safety and efficacy of removing
foreign bodies from children's airways using flexible bronchoscopic CO2 cryotherapy …

Aim Eighteen years have passed since the last European survey concerning practices in
pediatric bronchoscopy was conducted. Therefore, members of the European Respiratory …

For many decades, pediatric bronchoscopy has been an integral part of the diagnosis and
treatment of acute and chronic pulmonary diseases in children. Rapid technical advances …

Background Task forces of the European Respiratory Society (ERS, 2003) and the American
Thoracic Society (ATS, 2015) both recommend rigid bronchoscopy for foreign body removal …