Duodenal-bronchial fistula: an unusual cause of shortness of breath and a productive cough

Duodenal-bronchial fistulas are very uncommon, even among the already rare subgroup of abdominal-bronchial fistulas. We describe a case of a woman with Crohn's disease who presented with shortness of breath and a productive cough who was found to have a duodeanl bronchial fistula on computed to...

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Autores principales: Wong, Cynthia, Khan, Kalim, Byass, Oliver
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4996900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27594936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2016.04.007
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description Duodenal-bronchial fistulas are very uncommon, even among the already rare subgroup of abdominal-bronchial fistulas. We describe a case of a woman with Crohn's disease who presented with shortness of breath and a productive cough who was found to have a duodeanl bronchial fistula on computed tomography scan. We demonstrate with this case how these rare cases can lead to chronic lung aspirations and require multidisciplinary involvement.
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spelling pubmed-49969002016-09-02 Duodenal-bronchial fistula: an unusual cause of shortness of breath and a productive cough Wong, Cynthia Khan, Kalim Byass, Oliver Radiol Case Rep Case Report Duodenal-bronchial fistulas are very uncommon, even among the already rare subgroup of abdominal-bronchial fistulas. We describe a case of a woman with Crohn's disease who presented with shortness of breath and a productive cough who was found to have a duodeanl bronchial fistula on computed tomography scan. We demonstrate with this case how these rare cases can lead to chronic lung aspirations and require multidisciplinary involvement. Elsevier 2016-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4996900/ /pubmed/27594936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2016.04.007 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Duodenal-bronchial fistula: an unusual cause of shortness of breath and a productive cough
title_full Duodenal-bronchial fistula: an unusual cause of shortness of breath and a productive cough
title_fullStr Duodenal-bronchial fistula: an unusual cause of shortness of breath and a productive cough
title_full_unstemmed Duodenal-bronchial fistula: an unusual cause of shortness of breath and a productive cough
title_short Duodenal-bronchial fistula: an unusual cause of shortness of breath and a productive cough
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4996900/
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