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Bronchoscopy

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Your doctor will put a thin flexible tube in your nose. He or she will move it gently down your throat to look at the larger airways (bronchi) to your lungs.

Primary Medical Reviewer Caroline S. Rhoads, MD
- Internal Medicine
Specialist Medical Reviewer Robert L. Cowie, MB, FCP(SA), MD, MSc, MFOM
- Pulmonology
Last Updated June 6, 2007

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Last Updated: June 06, 2007
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