THE ROLE OF VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TUMOR AND FOREIGN BODY

Hoàn Lê, Ngọc Cương Nguyễn , Đông Dương Nguyễn

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Virtual bronchoscopy is a new non-invasive technique that allows indirect evaluation of respiratory tract lesions through computed tomography (CT) imaging. A study was conducted on 18 patients with respiratory tract tumors and foreign bodies at Hanoi medical university hospital to initially evaluate the role of virtual bronchoscopy in detecting lesions compared to flexible bronchoscopy. The results showed that virtual bronchoscopy was equivalent to flexible bronchoscopy in detecting lesions within the bronchial tubes.

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