Tracheobronchiectasis: Report of a Case with Eight Year Interval Studies

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CASE REPORT

A 40-year-old white coal miner first entered Ohio Valley General Hospital June 1, 1954, complaining of recurrent episodes of pneumonia. He related that he had had no serious illnesses until 1946 (age 32) when he had pneumonia. Since that time he had had recurrent episodes of cough productive of purulent sputum with occasional hemoptysis. Three months before this admission, he was hospitalized elsewhere for left chest pain and spontaneous pneumothorax was discovered. This subsided without

COMMENT

This condition has recently been the subject of an excellent review by Katz, LeVine and Herman3 and interested readers are referred to their article for a detailed analysis of the historic aspects and pathogenesis. Nielsen4 has emphasized the relationship of tracheobronchiectasis to tracheal diverticula. It is noted that in reported cases of tracheal diverticula, there is generalized dilatation of the trachea. Apparently, the same pathologic process, atrophic changes of the elastic and muscle

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