bronchoscopes in a sentence

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1. Melville, New York-based Olympus makes the bronchoscopes, which are used to inspect a patient's lungs and take tissue samples.
2. At the study's start, doctors used bronchoscopes to check the volunteers for precancerous growths that can go on to become lung cancer.
3. He essentially invented the modern science of endoscopy of the upper airway and esophagus, using hollow tubes with illumination ( esophagoscopes and bronchoscopes ).
4. More recently, fiberoptic scopes have been replaced by bronchoscopes with a charge coupled device ( CCD ) video chip located at their distal extremity.
5. The definitive diagnosis is the recovery of adult worms either by coughing them up or removing them with forceps, a bronchoscope, or endoscopic instruments.
6. An American, Chevalier Jackson, refined the rigid bronchoscope in the 1920s, using this rigid tube to visually inspect the trachea and mainstem bronchi.
7. In the meantime, doctors at Hopkins like those in Tennessee had begun to notice an unusually high rate of pseudomonas infections among patients exposed to bronchoscopes.
8. At a hastily called news conference Wednesday, Olympus acknowledged that it knew in September that a screw-on part of the bronchoscope could come loose.
9. Jackson introduced a new laryngoscope blade that incorporated a component that the operator could slide out to allow room for passage of an endotracheal tube or bronchoscope.
10. These instruments, developed in collaboration with the Genito-Urinary Company of London, included laryngoscopes, bronchoscopes ( such as the Negus bronchoscope ) and oesophagoscopes.