Raipur: A multidisciplinary team at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur successfully removed a sharp ...

A multidisciplinary team at AIIMS Raipur successfully removed a sharp metallic pushpin from a 13-year-old boy's bronchial ...

KMC Hospital Mangalore has achieved a significant medical milestone by successfully performing flexible bronchoscopy to treat ...

Standard biopsy forceps cannot be passed through the 1.2-mm suction channel of the 3.4- to 3.6-mm or 2.8-mm bronchoscopes. Olympus Healthcare (Olympus America; Melville, NY) introduced a mini ...

There have been no untoward risks reported in the series utilizing autofluorescence bronchoscopy. Considering that fluorescence inspection simply uses light of a different wavelength and that ...

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) incorporates surgical instruments through small incisions to perform procedures. Despite the potential advantages of MIS, the lack of tactile sensation and haptic ...

This paper describes the design, kinematic analysis, control architecture and experimental validation of a novel 3- degree-of-freedom (DOF) robotic surgical instrument for use in minimally invasive ...

Flexible bronchoscopy is a cornerstone diagnostic and therapeutic procedure in pulmonary medicine. Since its first introduction in the late 1960s,1 bronchoscopy has evolved and improved over time. It ...

IN a new multicenter trial, navigational bronchoscopy was found to be noninferior in diagnostic accuracy to transthoracic needle biopsy (TTNB) for evaluating peripheral pulmonary nodules, while ...