1. [Osteoplastic tracheopathy].
- Author
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Duchateau JP, Delvigne-Van Lancker M, and Melon J
- Subjects
- Aged, Female, Humans, Trachea pathology, Tracheal Stenosis etiology, Tracheal Diseases diagnosis, Tracheal Diseases etiology, Tracheal Diseases pathology
- Abstract
The authors related a case of high osteoplasic tracheopathy in a women, 79 years old. The semiology and the different etiopathogenic theories are reviewed. The affection is characterized by the presence in the tracheal sub-mucosa or sometimes the bronchial sub-mucosa of cartilagenous and often bony spaces, which cuases the stenosis of the respiratory lumen. In this related case, the lesions are situated at the level of a tracheal segment compressed by an important goitre. It seems to be caused by a local metaplasia induced by the compression.
- Published
- 1975