Interventional pulmonology
Skills labChairs: J. Annema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), D. Gompelmann (Vienna, Austria)
Aims: To demonstrate bronchoscopic techniques for the diagnosis, nodal staging, and treatment of lung cancer; to demonstrate novel bronchoscopic techniques for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis; to demonstrate how to perform cryobiopsy in interstitial lung diseases, and demonstrate how do to rigid thoracoscopy for suspected pleural malignancy.