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(Chest. 1950;18:98-110.)
© 1950 American College of Chest Physicians

Endoscopic Collection of Neoplastic Cells and Tubercle Bacilli from the Bronchi

(Description of a New Irrigation-suction Collector and the Anatomical, Physiological, and Pathological Factors Involved)

A. ALBERT CARABELLI M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.1

1 Chief of Thoracic Medicine, St. Francis Hospital, Trenton, New Jersey. Associate in Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1) The endoscopic approach to the positive diagnosis of pulmonary neoplasms and tuberculosis is discussed and compared to standard methods.

2) The anatomical, physiological, and pathological mechanisms concerned in the recovery of neoplastic cells and tubercle bacilli are described.

3) A new irrigation-suction cell and tubercle bacillus collector which permits collection from lower subdivisions of the bronchi is described in detail.

4) The apparatus described permits either selective or seriatim irrigation and suction of the lobar bronchi or of the approachable segmental bronchi making possible diagnoses in a more limited anatomical area.






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