Only one in the entire region of Bourgas videobronhoskop is already working in the department "Ear, nose and throat" of the Bourgas hospital.
Equipment is brand new, latest generation of medical equipment and it is purchased by Euro project for early diagnosis of cancer. The study, which is called autofluorescence videobronhoskopy allows very early to be diagnosed lesions of the upper and lower airways and bronchial cancer and precancerous conditions, said the head of the ENT department Dr. Daniel Petkov. The sooner this happens, the more real chance of a patient to be cured, he added. With bronchoscopy can be seen foreign bodies stuck in the airways. With the new equipment already tested dozens of patients from Bourgas and the region.