Severe Bronchomalacia in a 65-Year-Old Man Treated With Stent Insertion Instead of Surgical Bronchoplasty

Bronchomalacia in adults is rare. A case is reported here of a 65-year-old man with severe cough and mucostasis, caused by a benign bronchomalacia of the ventral wall of the left main bronchus. This was treated successfully with the insertion of a silicone Dumon stent as an alternative to surgical b...

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Autores principales: Sutedja, Tom G., de Graaf, Jan C., Schramel, Franz M., Van Kralingen, Klaas W., Postmus, Pieter E.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1995
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.1.227
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author Sutedja, Tom G.
de Graaf, Jan C.
Schramel, Franz M.
Van Kralingen, Klaas W.
Postmus, Pieter E.
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description Bronchomalacia in adults is rare. A case is reported here of a 65-year-old man with severe cough and mucostasis, caused by a benign bronchomalacia of the ventral wall of the left main bronchus. This was treated successfully with the insertion of a silicone Dumon stent as an alternative to surgical bronchoplasty.
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spelling pubmed-23624912008-05-20 Severe Bronchomalacia in a 65-Year-Old Man Treated With Stent Insertion Instead of Surgical Bronchoplasty Sutedja, Tom G. de Graaf, Jan C. Schramel, Franz M. Van Kralingen, Klaas W. Postmus, Pieter E. Diagn Ther Endosc Research Article Bronchomalacia in adults is rare. A case is reported here of a 65-year-old man with severe cough and mucostasis, caused by a benign bronchomalacia of the ventral wall of the left main bronchus. This was treated successfully with the insertion of a silicone Dumon stent as an alternative to surgical bronchoplasty. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1995 /pmc/articles/PMC2362491/ /pubmed/18493370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.1.227 Text en Copyright © 1995 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Severe Bronchomalacia in a 65-Year-Old Man Treated With Stent Insertion Instead of Surgical Bronchoplasty
title_full Severe Bronchomalacia in a 65-Year-Old Man Treated With Stent Insertion Instead of Surgical Bronchoplasty
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title_full_unstemmed Severe Bronchomalacia in a 65-Year-Old Man Treated With Stent Insertion Instead of Surgical Bronchoplasty
title_short Severe Bronchomalacia in a 65-Year-Old Man Treated With Stent Insertion Instead of Surgical Bronchoplasty
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362491/
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