Advances in Interventional Pulmonology is a comprehensive evidence-based text on diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic procedures. This volume covers basic and advanced procedures in the subspecialty of interventional pulmonology (IP). The material presented in this text book is also supported with expert opinion (where evidence is lacking) of authors who are leading researchers in the field of IP from around the world. The book delivers information about anatomical physiological pathological and therapeutic concepts in IP to physicians and is therefore suitable for readers having different levels of expertise. The authors have also discussed novel and experimental techniques and procedures when indicated for the benefit of research oriented readers.