Airway

Internal medicine

Radiology

Surgery

Cadaveric spasm

Respiratory disease

Fluoroscopy

Endoscope

Lung

Endoscopy

Bronchoscopy

Bronchus

Medicine

Cadaver

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Bronchoscopy for peripheral pulmonary lesions continues to present challenges to clinicians. One potential limitation may be the inability to advance conventional bronchoscopes into close proximity of peripheral lesions before biopsy. This study was performed to assess the reach of a robotic endoscopic system within human cadaveric lungs compared with conventional thin bronchoscopes.

Robotic Endoscopic Airway Challenge: REACH Assessment