老年咯血患者临床上较为常见,病因复杂。老年人咯血特别要警惕肺癌,及时明确诊断对预后影响甚为重要。为探讨纤维支气管镜(纤支镜)检对老年咯血患者的诊断价值,现将我院68例咯血患者的纤支镜检查结果分析如下。1　资料与方法1.1　一般资料:我院内镜室在1989年10月～1999年2月间 Elderly patients with hemoptysis are more common in clinical, the etiology is complicated. In particular, elderly patients with hemoptysis should be alert to lung cancer, timely diagnosis of prognosis is very important. In order to explore the diagnostic value of bronchoscopy (bronchoscopy) on elderly patients with hemoptysis, bronchoscopy in 68 patients with hemoptysis in our hospital were analyzed as follows. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General Information: Our hospital endoscopy room in October 1989 ~ February 1999