Sometimes bronchoscopy is used to treat lung problems. It may be done to insert a stent in an airway. An airway stent is a small tube that holds the airway open. It's used when a tumor or other condition blocks an airway. In children, the procedure most often is used to remove something blocking an airway.
Spanning the border from Minnesota into the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, Lake of the Woods is an enormous body of water over 68 miles long, 59 miles wide, with 25,000 miles of shoreline-the world's longest lake shoreline.
See http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3313_3677-15959--,00.html. World Book Encyclopedia (v.13, p.500 of the 2000 edition) states that Michigan's shoreline, at 3,288 miles is more than any other state except Alaska. This includes 1,056 miles (1,699 kilometers) of island shoreline.. In v.1 (p.284 and 294) of the same edition it states that Alaska has 6,640 miles or 10,686 kilometers of coastline.