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Complications in Transbronchial Lung Biopsy

Transbronchial lung biopsy was performed in 68 patients with various lung diseases. As an inital diagnostic procedure in diffuse and localized lung diseases, trasbronchial lung biopsy offers an attractive alternative to open lung biopsy. Recently imporvement in the development of medical technology...

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Autor principal: Hue, Sung Ho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1987
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4534948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3154832
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1987.2.2.209
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description Transbronchial lung biopsy was performed in 68 patients with various lung diseases. As an inital diagnostic procedure in diffuse and localized lung diseases, trasbronchial lung biopsy offers an attractive alternative to open lung biopsy. Recently imporvement in the development of medical technology has greatly facilitated this technique, but it must be kept in mind that a transbronchial lung biopsy is not without complication and sometimes potentially serious complications may occur. This study documents the complications of transbronchial lung biopsy with 8 cases of pneumothorax (11.8%), one case of mediastinal emphysema (1.5%), 3 cases of hemorrhage (4.4%), 2 cases of cardiac arrythmia (2.9%), but none of them was fatal and they responded well with treatment.
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spelling pubmed-45349482015-10-02 Complications in Transbronchial Lung Biopsy Hue, Sung Ho Korean J Intern Med Articles Transbronchial lung biopsy was performed in 68 patients with various lung diseases. As an inital diagnostic procedure in diffuse and localized lung diseases, trasbronchial lung biopsy offers an attractive alternative to open lung biopsy. Recently imporvement in the development of medical technology has greatly facilitated this technique, but it must be kept in mind that a transbronchial lung biopsy is not without complication and sometimes potentially serious complications may occur. This study documents the complications of transbronchial lung biopsy with 8 cases of pneumothorax (11.8%), one case of mediastinal emphysema (1.5%), 3 cases of hemorrhage (4.4%), 2 cases of cardiac arrythmia (2.9%), but none of them was fatal and they responded well with treatment. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1987-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4534948/ /pubmed/3154832 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1987.2.2.209 Text en Copyright © 1987 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4534948/
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