Awake fibreoptic intubation is accepted as the gold standard for intubation of patients with an anticipated difficult airway. Radiation fibrosis may cause difficulties during the intubation procedure. We present an unusual severe case of radiation induced changes to the larynx, with limited clinical symptoms, that caused failure of the fibreoptic intubation technique. A review of the known lite...

The complication and mortality rate associated with fibreoptic bronchoscopy and transbronchial lung biopsy are low.' 2 Pneumothorax has been reported to occur after about 5% of transbronchial lung biopsies and is the most common complication of the procedure.3 Many extensive reviews of fibreoptic bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsy, however, make no mention of the occurrence of delayed pneu...

We describe the case of an intrabronchial aspirated foreign body that caused a persistent right lower lobe infiltrate. A first fibreoptic bronchoscopy demonstrated a mass with tumour-like appearance in the right bronchus intermedias, but the bronchial biopsies and the cytological smears of the bronchial aspirate failed to reveal any malignancy. During a control fibreoptic bronchoscopy, we found...