Incidence and Location of Atelectasis Developed During Bronchoscopy Under General Anesthesia

Despite the many advances in peripheral bronchoscopy, its diagnostic yield remains suboptimal. With the use of cone-beam CT imaging we have found atelectasis mimicking lung tumors or obscuring them when using radial-probe endobronchial ultrasound (RP-EBUS), but its incidence remains unknown.What are the incidence, anatomic location, and risk factors for developing atelectasis during bronchoscopy under general anesthesia?We performed a...