Medicine:Bronchography

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Bronchography
Medical diagnostics
MeSHD001995
OPS-301 code3-135

Bronchography is a radiological technique, which involves x-raying the respiratory tree after coating the airways with contrast.[1] Bronchography is rarely performed, as it has been made obsolete with improvements in computed tomography and bronchoscopy.

References

  1. Ronald B. George (2005). Chest medicine: essentials of pulmonary and critical care medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-0-7817-5273-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzlX2zJMbdgC&pg=PA83. Retrieved 7 June 2011.