Safety Study of Endobronchial Electrosurgery for Tracheobronchial Lesions

Background Symptomatic stenosis of the airway necessitates intervention to keep the patency of tracheobronchial tree. Urgent treatment to secure the airway is therefore often required. Although endobronchial electrosurgery, defined as the interventional use of high-frequency electrical current under bronchoscopic guidance, has been used by many bronchoscopists, the safety of exposing the tracheobronchial tree to high-frequency electrical current...