Tracheobronchomegaly as a Cause of Bronchiectasis in an Adult

Mounier-Kuhn syndrome (MKS) is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by dilated trachea and main bronchi due to atrophy of the elastic fibers and smooth muscle cells of the trachea and major airways. Patients of MKS can have varied presentation. The diagnosis is established radiologically and bron...

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Autores principales: Govindaraj, Vishnukanth, Mohanty Mohapatra, Madhusmita, Nagamalli Kumar, Balla, Narayanasami, Suryakala
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4789050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27022496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5049406
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author Govindaraj, Vishnukanth
Mohanty Mohapatra, Madhusmita
Nagamalli Kumar, Balla
Narayanasami, Suryakala
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description Mounier-Kuhn syndrome (MKS) is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by dilated trachea and main bronchi due to atrophy of the elastic fibers and smooth muscle cells of the trachea and major airways. Patients of MKS can have varied presentation. The diagnosis is established radiologically and bronchoscopically. There is no specific treatment for MKS. We present an adult man with MKS who presented with recurrent respiratory tract infection. The diagnosis was confirmed by imaging study and fiberoptic bronchoscopy.
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spelling pubmed-47890502016-03-28 Tracheobronchomegaly as a Cause of Bronchiectasis in an Adult Govindaraj, Vishnukanth Mohanty Mohapatra, Madhusmita Nagamalli Kumar, Balla Narayanasami, Suryakala Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report Mounier-Kuhn syndrome (MKS) is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by dilated trachea and main bronchi due to atrophy of the elastic fibers and smooth muscle cells of the trachea and major airways. Patients of MKS can have varied presentation. The diagnosis is established radiologically and bronchoscopically. There is no specific treatment for MKS. We present an adult man with MKS who presented with recurrent respiratory tract infection. The diagnosis was confirmed by imaging study and fiberoptic bronchoscopy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4789050/ /pubmed/27022496 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5049406 Text en Copyright © 2016 Vishnukanth Govindaraj et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Tracheobronchomegaly as a Cause of Bronchiectasis in an Adult
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4789050/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5049406
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