Experience with bronchoscopy in an interdistrict children's surgical department

Abstract

From 1983 to 1985, 64 bronchoscopies were performed in our department in 40 patients. There were 8 children under one year old, 21 - 1-2 years old, 2-5 - 9, 9-10 - 2. Destructive pneumonia was diagnosed in 21 children, acute inflammatory airway diseases in 7, aspiration pneumonia in one: foreign bodies in bronchi were found in 1 1 children. Bronchoscopy involved bronchial occlusion (19), removal of obturators and foreign bodies (30), and bronchial sanitation (15).

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