Author
College of Medicine, Baghdad University - Retired Professor
Abstract
Looking inside Tracheo-Bronchial tree was a dream for a thoracic surgeon. Gustav Killian (1860 –1921), the father of bronchoscopy .He was a German laryngologist, was appointed a professor of ENT at the University of Freiburg in 1892. Gustav Killian in 1897 succeeded in removing aspirated pork bone from the bronchus of a 63-year-old farmer, under cocaine anesthesia. He used external light source, a head mirror, Esophagoscope and forceps to remove the bone.
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