Bronchoscopy and Central Airway Disorders

<p>Contents</p> <p>Preface </p> <p>How to Use This Book: The "Four Box" Approach</p> <p>Section 1. Practical Approach to Benign Exophytic Airway Obstruction</p> <p>1. Rigid Bronchoscopy With Laser Resection for Tracheal Obstruction From Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis</p> <p>2. Endoscopic therapy of endobronchial typical carcinoid </p> <p>3. Bronchoscopic treatment of silicone stent–related granulation tissue</p> <p>4. Bronchoscopic Removal of a Broncholith From the Lateral Wall of the Proximal Bronchus Intermedius</p> <p>5. Treatment of tracheobronchial aspergillosis superimposed on post tuberculosis-related tracheal stricture</p> <p>Section 2. Practical Approach to Benign Tracheal Stenosis</p> <p>6. Bronchoscopic Treatment of Idiopathic Laryngotracheal Stenosis With Glottis Involvement</p> <p>7. Idiopathic subglottic stenosis without glottis involvement</p> <p>8. Post Intubation Tracheal Stenosis</p> <p>9. Bronchoscopic Treatment of Post Tracheostomy Tracheal Stenosis With Chondritis</p> <p>10. Bronchoscopic Treatment of Wegener’s Granulomatosis-Related Subglottic Stenosis </p> <p>Section 3. Practical Approach to Expiratory Central Airway Collapse</p> <p>11. Silicone Stent Insertion for Focal Crescent Type Tracheomalacia in a Patient With sarcoidosis</p> <p>12. Stent insertion for diffuse circumferential tracheobronchomalacia caused by relapsing polychondritis</p> <p>13. CPAP treatment for moderate diffuse excessive dynamic airway collapse caused by Mounier-Kuhn syndrome</p> <p>14. Stent insertion for severe diffuse excessive dynamic airway collapse caused by COPD</p> <p>Section 4. Practical Approach to Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy (EBUS and alternatives)</p> <p>15. EBUS-TBNA for Right Upper Lobe Mass and Right Lower Paratracheal Lymphadenopathy </p> <p>16: EBUS-TBNA of right lower paratracheal lymph node (station 4R)</p> <p>17: EBUS-TBNA of a left lower paratracheal node (level 4L) in a patient with a left upper lobe lung mass and suspected lung cancer</p> <p>18. EBUS-TBNA for Subcentimeter PET Negative Subcarinal LAD (Station 7) and a Right Lower Lobe Pulmonary Nodule</p> <p>19. EBUS-Guided TBNA for isolated subcarinal lymphadenopathy (station 7).</p> <p>Section 5. Practical Approach to Malignant Central Airway Obstruction</p> <p>20. Stent insertion for extrinsic tracheal obstruction caused by thyroid carcinoma</p> <p>21. Rigid bronchoscopy tumor debulking and silicone stent insertion for mixed malignant tracheal obstruction caused by esophageal carcinoma</p> <p>22. Rigid bronchoscopy with laser and stent placement for bronchus intermedius obstruction from lung cancer involving the right main pulmonary artery</p> <p>23: Photodynamic therapy for palliation of infiltrative endoluminal obstruction at left secondary carina and left lower lobe bronchus</p> <p>24. Rigid Bronchoscopy With Y Stent Insertion at Left Secondary Carina</p> <p>Section 6. Practical Approach to Other Central Airway Disease Processes</p> <p>25: Rigid bronchoscopy for removal of a foreign body lodged in the right lower lobe bronchus</p> <p>26. Treatment of critical left main bronchial obstruction and acute respiratory failure in the setting of right pneumonectomy </p> <p>27. Stent insertion for tracheo-broncho-esophageal fistula at the level of lower trachea and left mainstem bronchus</p> <p>28. Rigid bronchoscopic intervention for central airway obstruction and concurrent superior vena cava syndrome caused by small cell carcinoma</p> <p>29. Bronchoscopic treatment of a large right mainstem bronchial stump fistula</p> <p>30. Hemoptysis caused by distal left main bronchial tumor in a patient with primary lung adenocarcinoma </p> <p>Section 7. Case-Based Self-Assessment Questions</p> <p>Index</p>