NASOPHARYNGOSCOPY - 11/09/11
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Patients who present to clinicians with complaints referable to the upper airway often benefit from careful visualization of the nasopharyn geal structures. The methods of viewing upper airway structures have been evolving since Manuel Garcia, a Spanish singing instructor, first wrote in 1854 about arranging a series of mirrors so he could use sunlight to visualize his own larynx.18 Kirstein wrote about direct laryngoscopy in 1895. Later equipment refinements included many methods to reduce the number of light beams that had to be arranged to perform indirect examinations, including the use of head lamps instead of head mirrors and the development of rigid scopes with prisms and incandescent bulbs for viewing the structures of the larynx. The introduction of a flexible fiberoptic scope in 1968 has allowed physicians to view the structures of the upper airway as never before. Fiberoptic endoscopy has been used routinely in ambulatory settings by physicians since the 1980s.6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15
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Vol 24 - N° 2
P. 359-374 - juin 1997 Retour au numéro
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