Virtual bronchoscopy for diagnosis of inhalation injury in burnt patients

Gore, Madhuri A; Joshi, Anagha R; Nagarajan, Ganesh; Iyer, Sandhya P; Kulkarni, Trupti; Khandelwal, Ashish

doi:10.1016/j.burns.2003.09.024

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Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 165-168, March 2004

Virtual bronchoscopy for diagnosis of inhalation injury in burnt patients

Madhuri A Gore
- Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
- Corresponding author. Present address: ‘Shreyas’ 20, Udayagiri, V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai 400088, India. Tel.: +91-22-25554770(R)/+91-22-24042095(O).
Anagha R Joshi
- Department of Radiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
Ganesh Nagarajan
- Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
Sandhya P Iyer
- Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
Trupti Kulkarni
- Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
Ashish Khandelwal
- Department of Radiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India

Accepted 5 September 2003.

Abstract

Virtual bronchoscopy using a multislice CT scanner, is a new non-invasive imaging technique and its utility in the diagnosis of inhalation injury in burnt patients has not been reported in literature yet. Initial experience of technique is encouraging and it merits more interest. It overcomes many of the limitations of the presently established procedure of fibreoptic bronchoscopy. Ten burned patients with clinical suspicion of inhalation injury underwent this investigation and in eight of these the diagnosis was confirmed.

Keywords: Bronchoscopy, Virtual, Burns, Inhalation