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Bronchoscopy has helped to clear obstruction in all cases of foreign bodies. Immediate improvement resulted in 60% cases of bronchiectasis, 62% cases of progressive primary complex, and 40% cases of collapse of the lung. Evidence of endobronchial tuberculosis such as inflammation, caseation, ulceration and granulation were found in 36% of cases of primary complex. In none of the cases was there any exacerbation of the disease process. Complications occurred in children with poor general condition.
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Paper read at the 28th Annual Conference of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India held at Calcutta in January 1976.
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Parameswaran, T.M. Bronchoscopy in chronic obstructive lung diseases in children. Indian J Otolaryngol 28, 171–173 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02991979
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