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Pediatric Bronchoscopy

A Report of Methodology and Results

Department of Otolaryngology, University Central Hospital

Pentti Kero, MD

Department of Pediatrics, University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland

Päivi Valli, BM

Department of Pediatrics, University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland

Eila Iisalo, MD

Department of Pediatrics, University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland

Matti Erkinjuntti, MD

Department of Pediatrics, University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland

Data for this article were obtained from a retrospective analysis of 386 pediatric bronchoscopies from 1979 through 1986. Endoscopic procedures were carried out under general anesthesia using a rigid open bronchoscope. There were 235 boys (61 %) and 151 girls (39%). The mean age was 2 years, 3 months.

Eight percent of the girls were under 1 month of age, compared with only 4 percent of the boys. The lightest patient weighed 650 g.

In children under 1 year of age, the most common indications were dyspnea (32%) and anomaly or suspicion of anomaly (20%). In children over 1 year of age suspected foreign body (32%) and recurrent respiratory infections (30%) were the most common indications. In 15 percent of patients, laryngomalacia and/or an abnormal epiglottis was confirmed. Subglottic stenosis, congenital or acquired, was confirmed in 9 percent and tracheal compression in 12 percent of cases. Seventeen percent of the children showed totally normal findings. There were only eight complications in the whole series and no death or cardiac arrest.

The authors confirm the safety of bronchoscopy when careful attention is paid to preoperative investigations, selection of the instruments used, and postoperative care.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 28, No. 6, 253-257 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288902800602


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