Phillip Bozzini developed a light conductor which was a precursor of endoscopes

1807

Benjamin Guy Babington invented a “glottiscope”

1828

The Era of Gustav Killian 1876

Alfred Kirstein directly visualized the vocal cords

1895

The development of the rigid bronchoscope 1897

The Era of Chevalier Jackson 1904

American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology and Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology were formed

1992

Hürter and Hanrath first reported the utility of radial probe EBUS (RP-EBUS)

1992

Heinrich Becker highlighted the immense potential of EBUS in sampling mediastinal lymph nodes

1992

The consept of electromagnetic navigation originated in Stephen Solomon’s animal laboratory

2003

Tudor Toma conceptualized endobronchial volume reduction

20032003

Kazuhiro Yasufaku demonstrated the high yield of the convex probe EBUS

2004

Gerard Cox established the safety of bronchial thermoplasty

2006

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