TY - JOUR T1 - Therapeutic bronchoscopy with immediate effect revisited: “tissue is the issue” JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1281 LP - 1281 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00009807 VL - 29 IS - 6 AU - E. E. McGrath AU - P. B. Anderson Y1 - 2007/06/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/29/6/1281.abstract N2 - To the Editors: In the paper by Bolliger et al. 1, the authors highlight that there have been very few multicentre trials and no randomised prospective trials on interventional stent insertion. They write that different centres have different levels of expertise at interventional bronchoscopy. With that in mind, the idea of management guidelines for treatment must surely be appealing, so that we all have a standard approach to treatment and diminish variability across centres. This point was highlighted by a recent case at our unit. An elderly frail patient presented in respiratory failure … ER -