A rare case of bronchial elastosis: An unusual presentation of an unexpandable lung

Endobronchial obstruction is a known cause of an unexpandable lung. Endobronchial lesions are usually malignant, however benign cause like hemartoma, lipoma, amyloidosis and neuroendocrine tumors are known. We, hereby present the rare cause of bronchial elastosis presenting as right lower lobe lung...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Raghav, Patail, Hassan, Al-Ajam, Mohammad R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29319035
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_31_17
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description Endobronchial obstruction is a known cause of an unexpandable lung. Endobronchial lesions are usually malignant, however benign cause like hemartoma, lipoma, amyloidosis and neuroendocrine tumors are known. We, hereby present the rare cause of bronchial elastosis presenting as right lower lobe lung collapse.
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spelling pubmed-57608692018-02-07 A rare case of bronchial elastosis: An unusual presentation of an unexpandable lung Gupta, Raghav Patail, Hassan Al-Ajam, Mohammad R Lung India Case Report Endobronchial obstruction is a known cause of an unexpandable lung. Endobronchial lesions are usually malignant, however benign cause like hemartoma, lipoma, amyloidosis and neuroendocrine tumors are known. We, hereby present the rare cause of bronchial elastosis presenting as right lower lobe lung collapse. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5760869/ /pubmed/29319035 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_31_17 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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title_fullStr A rare case of bronchial elastosis: An unusual presentation of an unexpandable lung
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title_short A rare case of bronchial elastosis: An unusual presentation of an unexpandable lung
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