These reference videos describe how to perform surgical bronchoscopy, discuss how to identify normal and abnormal findings, and give a gist of how the thoracic surgeon assesses the bronchial tree.
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Trachea and bronchi
Flexible Bronchoscopy Mediated Foreign Body Removal From Right Lower Lobe Bronchus Using a Cryoprobe
March 27, 2019
This video demonstrates a flexible bronchoscopy–mediated foreign body removal from right lower lobe bronchus using a cryoprobe.
March 19, 2019
This video shows the bronchoscopic evaluation of a patch tracheoplasty, performed for a 58-year-old woman who was diagnosed with relapsing polychondritis.
March 14, 2019
Leanne Harling and Martin Elliott discuss the establishment of the UK National Tracheal Service and the evolution of tracheal surgery.
February 11, 2019
The authors demonstrate the technical aspects of a complete portal robotic sleeve resection of the bronchus intermedius.
January 23, 2019
This video documents a robotic left-sided excision of a bronchogenic cyst with sutured repair.
January 21, 2019
The authors present a uniportal VATS anatomic right basal segmentectomy performed for the treatment of a 2.5 cm diffuse ground glass opacity adenocarcinoma in the right basal segments, which was found during chronic asthma follow-up.
December 19, 2018
Stanifer and colleagues present a contemporary analysis of tracheal surgery in the US with the goal of identifying predictors of major morbidity and mortality. Tracheal resections reported in The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database between 2002 and 2016 were included in this analysis.
December 12, 2018
The authors discuss the extraction of a rosary bead that was inhaled by a 4-year-old boy using rigid bronchoscopy.
November 30, 2018
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