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This procedure is referred to as bronchoscopy. Originally developed as rigid bronchoscopy, back in the 1950s, using a very frightening-looking rigid tube stuffed down into the trachea, which was very unpleasant for the patient and was limited to the examination only of the very upper part of the airway. This developed into flexible bronchoscopy, when a relatively fine, flexible tube is inserted, nowadays with a light source and digital camera at the tip, which can penetrate several bifurcations of the bronchial tree. Other attachments can be passed to the end of the tube, allowing biopsies to be taken - by way of a retractable loop of wire and a small pincer - or even small tumours to be cut with a knife or ablated with a laser.

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