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Editorial
. 2025 Mar 24;11(2):01137-2024.
doi: 10.1183/23120541.01137-2024. eCollection 2025 Mar.

ERS Congress 2024: highlights from the Clinical Techniques, Imaging and Endoscopy Assembly

Christian Kildegaard  1 , Gergely Szabo  2   3 , Evangelia Koukaki  4 , Walter De Wever  5 , Elzbieta Magdalena Grabczak  6 , Amanda Dandanell Juul  1   7
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Editorial

ERS Congress 2024: highlights from the Clinical Techniques, Imaging and Endoscopy Assembly

Christian Kildegaard et al. ERJ Open Res. .

Abstract

Excellent presentations at the #ERSCongress 2024 highlight the growing role of interventional pulmonology, imaging and thoracic ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of respiratory disease https://bit.ly/4km8leX.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: C. Kildegaard has received grants from the Danish Cancer Society. E.M. Grabczak has received a research grant from the Polish National Science Centre. A.D. Juul has received research grants from the Danish Cancer Society, The Beckett Foundation and the Region of Southern Denmark. G. Szabo, E. Koukaki and W. De Wever have reported no conflicts of interest.

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Highlights from the Clinical Techniques, Imaging and Endoscopy Assembly. 129Xe MRI: xenon-129 magnetic resonance imaging; EBUS-TMC: endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial mediastinal cryobiopsy. Figure partially created with BioRender.com
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