Abstract
Patients with lung cancer frequently develop symptoms related to endobronchial disease such as airway obstruction, hemoptysis, and dyspnea. Therapeutic bronchoscopic interventions are an important adjunct in palliating such symptoms. Mechanical techniques include rigid bronchoscopy, balloon bronchoplasty, airway stenting, and microdebrider bronchoscopy. These can be used to treat symptoms related to intraluminal and extrinsic compression. Thermal therapies include endobronchial laser, electrocautery, argon plasma coagulation, and cryotherapy. They are best suited to lesions of a predominantly intraluminal nature. Photodynamic therapy and endobronchial brachytherapy are neither mechanical nor thermal. They work best for intraluminal tumors. Combined modality treatment is often required, and all of these bronchoscopic interventions are considered adjunctive to standard therapy with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Lung Cancer |
Subtitle of host publication | Fourth Edition |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 253-266 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118468791 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781118468746 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 27 2014 |
Keywords
- Argon plasma coagulation
- Brachytherapy
- Bronchoscopy
- Electrocautery
- Interventional pulmonology
- Laser resection
- Lung cancer
- Microdebrider
- Photodynamic therapy
- Stenting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine