Fiberoptic bronchoscopic clinic assessment of endobronchial tuberculosis

[Objective] To analyse and summarize the clinic character of endobronchial tuberculosis(EBTB) and evaluate the importance of fiberoptic bronchoscope in the diagnosis of EBTB. [Methods] 322 cases of EBTB were analysed retrospectively, all the patients diagnosis was confirmed by fiberoptic bronchoscope, pathology and pathogeny. [Results] In 322 cases of EBTB, male patients 136 cases (42.2%), female patients 186 cases (42.2%), Female patients 186 cases (57.8%), average age was (33.8±9.3) year. They mostly symptom was cough (86.0%), emptysis(25.8%) gasp or chest depressed (18.0%), chest pain (10.9%) became thin and tired 6.8%, under the fiberotic bronchoscope, the type of congestion and edema in 23.6%, ulcerative lesions in 36%,granulomatons in 27.6% and scar straitness in 12.7%. The lesion usually take place in left main branch, both of the superior bronchus, sometimes involve multi-leaf bronchus. Beford diagnosis, it was usually mistook for pneumonia, lung cancer, bronchitis, asthma and so on. [Conclusion] Fiberoptic bronchoscope examination play a key role for the diagnosis of endobronchial tuberculosis, meanwhile, it is the best way to avoid mistaking diagnosis.