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Tracheobronchomalacia due to amyloidosis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis

In this case report, we describe a patient with longstanding rheumatoid arthritis who developed tracheobronchomalacia with fatal outcome. Despite negative antemortem biopsies of abdominal fat and tongue, amyloid was found postmortem in the trachea and appeared to be associated with tracheobronchomal...

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Autores principales: Turkstra, Franktien, Rinkel, Rico N. P. M., Biermann, Hagen, van der Valk, Paul, Voskuyl, Alexandre E.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18204872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10067-008-0836-x