Case report: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome

Tracheobronchomegaly or Mounier-Kuhn syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by marked dilatation of the trachea and main bronchi, bronchiectasis, and recurrent respiratory tract infections. The etiology of this disorder is uncertain and the clinical presentation is variable. The diagnosis is usua...

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Autores principales: Kachhawa, Satish, Meena, ML, Jindal, Gaurav, Jain, Bharat
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Chest Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19774190
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.40955
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author Kachhawa, Satish
Meena, ML
Jindal, Gaurav
Jain, Bharat
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Meena, ML
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Jain, Bharat
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description Tracheobronchomegaly or Mounier-Kuhn syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by marked dilatation of the trachea and main bronchi, bronchiectasis, and recurrent respiratory tract infections. The etiology of this disorder is uncertain and the clinical presentation is variable. The diagnosis is usually made on the basis of the characteristic CT scan findings. We report a case in a 21-year-old man presenting with recurrent lower respiratory tract infections.
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spelling pubmed-27474682009-09-22 Case report: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome Kachhawa, Satish Meena, ML Jindal, Gaurav Jain, Bharat Indian J Radiol Imaging Chest Radiology Tracheobronchomegaly or Mounier-Kuhn syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by marked dilatation of the trachea and main bronchi, bronchiectasis, and recurrent respiratory tract infections. The etiology of this disorder is uncertain and the clinical presentation is variable. The diagnosis is usually made on the basis of the characteristic CT scan findings. We report a case in a 21-year-old man presenting with recurrent lower respiratory tract infections. Medknow Publications 2008-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2747468/ /pubmed/19774190 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.40955 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Chest Radiology
Kachhawa, Satish
Meena, ML
Jindal, Gaurav
Jain, Bharat
Case report: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome
title Case report: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome
title_full Case report: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome
title_fullStr Case report: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Case report: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome
title_short Case report: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome
title_sort case report: mounier-kuhn syndrome
topic Chest Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19774190
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.40955
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