Bronchial Atresia with Transient Spontaneous Disappearance of a Mucocele
| Autor: | Mine Harada, Tadashi Maeda, Hiroyasu Takeyama, Shigeki Makihara, Keisuke Aoe, Naomi Kunichika, Ryosuke Eda, Hiroyuki Kohara, Nobuaki Miyahara |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Remission Spontaneous Mucocele Bronchi Internal Medicine medicine Humans Thoracotomy Bronchus Bronchocele Lung medicine.diagnostic_test Bronchography business.industry General Medicine respiratory system medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Atresia Female Radiology Chest radiograph business |
| Zdroj: | Internal Medicine. 38:974-978 |
| ISSN: | 1349-7235 0918-2918 |
| DOI: | 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.974 |
| Popis: | We report the transient spontaneous disappearance of a mucocele due to bronchial atresia. Two years before presentation, a chest radiograph showed a hyperlucent right upper lung and a mucocele near the right hilum. A chest radiograph taken 1 year later showed that the mucocele had disappeared leaving an ovoid outline of a dilated bronchus. A chest radiograph obtained 3 months before presentation showed that the mucocele was present again. Atresia of the B3b bronchus of the right upper lobe was noted on thoracotomy. The "disappearance" of the mucocele probably was due to the clearance of mucoid material through collateral airways. |
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