Flexible Bronchoscopy

List of Contributors, vii
Preface to the Third Edition, ix

Part 1 Fundamentals of Bronchoscopy

1 Bronchoscopy in the New Millennium, 3
Noriaki Kurimoto and Teruomi Miyazawa

2 Infection Control and Radiation Safety in the BronchoscopySuite, 6
Prasoon Jain and Atul C. Mehta

3 Examination of the Larynx Through the Flexible Bronchoscope,32
Navatha Kurugundla, Adnan Majid, Luis F. Riquelme, and Arthur W.Sung

4 Applied Anatomy of the Airways, 46
Mani S. Kavuru, Atul C. Mehta, and J. Francis Turner Jr

5 Anesthesia for Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy, 53
Mario Gomez and Gerard A. Silvestri

6 Flexible Bronchoscopy Training, 63
Momen M. Wahidi, Navreet Sandhu Sindhwani, Scott L. Shofer, andAli I. Musani

7 Indications and Contraindications in Flexible Bronchoscopy,70
Robert F. Browning Jr, J. Francis Turner Jr, and Ko-PenWang

Part 2 Diagnostic Bronchoscopy

8 Bronchoscopy for Airway Lesions, 95
Heinrich D. Becker

9 Bronchoscopic Lung Biopsy, 117
Rajesh R. Patel and James P. Utz

10 Bronchoalveolar Lavage, 132
Brian Palen and Richard Helmers

11 Transbronchial Needle Aspiration for Cytology and HistologySpecimens, 147
Ko-Pen Wang, Atul C. Mehta, and J. Francis Turner Jr

12 The Utilization of Autofl uorescence in FlexibleBronchoscopy, 170
Taichiro Ishizumi and Stephen C. T. Lam

13 Endobronchial Ultrasound, 176
Heinrich D. Becker

14 Application and Limitations of Virtual BronchoscopicNavigation, 191
Fumihiro Asano

Part 3 Therapeutic Bronchoscopy

15 Application of Laser, Electrocautery, Argon PlasmaCoagulation, and Cryotherapy in Flexible Bronchoscopy, 201
Praveen N. Mathur

16 Flexible Bronchoscopy and the Application of EndobronchialBrachytherapy, Fiducial Placement, and Radiofrequency Ablation,212
Michael A. Jantz

17 Foreign Body Aspiration and Flexible Bronchoscopy, 238
Erik Folch and Atul C. Mehta

18 The Role of Bronchoscopy in Hemoptysis, 250
Sunit R. Patel and James K. Stoller

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Ko-Pen Wang , Interventional Pulmonology, Johns HopkinsHospital, Director Chest Diagnostic Center, Harbor Hospital Center,Associate Professor of Medicine, and Otolaryngology Head and neckSurgery, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore,Maryland, USA
Atul C. Mehta , CMO, Shikh Khalifa Medical City, AbuDhabi, U.A.E., Staff Physician, Respiratory Institute, ClevelandClinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

J. Francis Turner, Jr. , Chief, Interventional Pulmonology& Critical Care Medicine, Nevada Cancer Institute, Professor ofMedicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of NevadaSchool of Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA