Abstract
The department of Bronchoesophagology belongs to the section of Diagnostic Clinic in the Hospital. This department, headed by the author, deals with bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy mainly by means of the flexible fiber scopes.
The advantages of flexible fiber bronchoscope are:
1) Much less dyscomfortableness to the patients
2) The visibitity of IIIrd-IVth segmental bronchial trees, and eminability of surgical indication.
3) Cytology from the mucous membrane of these small bronchial trees is most adequate
The development of the endoscopic instruments changes our attitude to Bronchoesophagology, which had been operated mostly by otolaryngologists.
Bronchoesophagology must be isolated and independent section of diagnostic clinic with the co-operations of participants, in the same fashion of Department of Radiology exists today.
This topic is discussed in the U.S.A. also, and we, however, should establish the Department in our own ideas apart from those of other countries.
The department of Bronchoesophagology should be an initiative and dominant to any other department in the section of Endoscopy. This shall result in more benefits to the patients refered from other departments.
