Aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia

Tracheomalacia is one of the rarest etiologies of chronic cough. Herein, we present the case of an elderly woman with chronic cough who on detailed evaluation was found to have focal (localized) tracheomalacia due to compression by an aberrant right subclavian artery (arteria lusoria). The absence o...

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Autores principales: Padmanabhan, Arjun, Thomas, Abin Varghese, Sandeep, G S K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Pictorial CME
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28474661
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.205328
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author Padmanabhan, Arjun
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description Tracheomalacia is one of the rarest etiologies of chronic cough. Herein, we present the case of an elderly woman with chronic cough who on detailed evaluation was found to have focal (localized) tracheomalacia due to compression by an aberrant right subclavian artery (arteria lusoria). The absence of dysphagia in this patient also deserves particular mention.
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spelling pubmed-54277632017-05-26 Aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia Padmanabhan, Arjun Thomas, Abin Varghese Sandeep, G S K Lung India Pictorial CME Tracheomalacia is one of the rarest etiologies of chronic cough. Herein, we present the case of an elderly woman with chronic cough who on detailed evaluation was found to have focal (localized) tracheomalacia due to compression by an aberrant right subclavian artery (arteria lusoria). The absence of dysphagia in this patient also deserves particular mention. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5427763/ /pubmed/28474661 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.205328 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Chest Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia
title Aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia
title_full Aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia
title_fullStr Aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia
title_full_unstemmed Aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia
title_short Aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia
title_sort aberrant right subclavian artery syndrome manifesting as focal tracheomalacia
topic Pictorial CME
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28474661
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.205328
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