Severe complications of bronchoscopy

Respiration

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 429-433

  Jin, Faguang ^a   Mu, Deguang ^a   Chu, Dongling ^a   Fu, Enqing ^a   Xie, Yonghong ^a   Liu, Tonggang ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bronchoscopy; Complications

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHOSPASM; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LARYNX SPASM; LUNG DISEASE; PERFORATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BRONCHIAL SPASM; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; LARYNGISMUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TRACHEA; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56649108093     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000151656     Document Type: Article

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