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.
Formato: Texto
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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