Melville, New York-based Olympus makes the bronchoscopes, which are used to inspect a patient's lungs and take tissue samples.
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At the study's start, doctors used bronchoscopes to check the volunteers for precancerous growths that can go on to become lung cancer.
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He essentially invented the modern science of endoscopy of the upper airway and esophagus, using hollow tubes with illumination ( esophagoscopes and bronchoscopes ).
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More recently, fiberoptic scopes have been replaced by bronchoscopes with a charge coupled device ( CCD ) video chip located at their distal extremity.
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The definitive diagnosis is the recovery of adult worms either by coughing them up or removing them with forceps, a bronchoscope, or endoscopic instruments.
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An American, Chevalier Jackson, refined the rigid bronchoscope in the 1920s, using this rigid tube to visually inspect the trachea and mainstem bronchi.
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In the meantime, doctors at Hopkins like those in Tennessee had begun to notice an unusually high rate of pseudomonas infections among patients exposed to bronchoscopes.
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At a hastily called news conference Wednesday, Olympus acknowledged that it knew in September that a screw-on part of the bronchoscope could come loose.
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Jackson introduced a new laryngoscope blade that incorporated a component that the operator could slide out to allow room for passage of an endotracheal tube or bronchoscope.
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These instruments, developed in collaboration with the Genito-Urinary Company of London, included laryngoscopes, bronchoscopes ( such as the Negus bronchoscope ) and oesophagoscopes.
