Diagnostic Yield of Various Bronchoscopic Techniques for Evaluation of Lung Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis Comparing Endobronchially Visible and Non–visible Lesions

Abstract

BACKGROUNDFlexible bronchoscopy is one of the main modalities for diagnosis of lung cancer and since in most centres of developing countries advanced guided bronchoscopic techniques are unavailable there is need to study the diagnostic yield of this procedure in the absence of imaging facilities like C-arm and EBUS.