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Anthracofibrosis or Anthracostenosis
- Source :
- Archivos de Bronconeumología (English Edition). 48:133-136
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2012.
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Abstract
- Anthracofibrosis is a bronchial stenosis due to local mucosal fibrosis that also presents anthracotic pigment in the mucosa. The cause has not been well clarified, although there is a frequent association with tuberculosis and the exposure to smoke from biofuel or biomass combustion. It is an entity that has not been reported in Spain, although the influx of people from rural areas of developing countries or rural areas of our own country should make us contemplate this entity in the differential diagnosis of our patients. We present 3 cases detected in Spain (2 of them natives) diagnosed by bronchoscopy and bronchial biopsy, which are techniques necessary to confirm the diagnosis. There is no specific treatment, except for tuberculostatic treatment in cases with coexisting tuberculosis.
- Subjects :
- Male
Rural Population
Pulmonary Atelectasis
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
Haemophilus Infections
Tuberculosis
Biopsy
India
Constriction, Pathologic
Bronchoscopy
Fibrosis
Smoke
Pneumonia, Bacterial
medicine
Humans
Bronchial Biopsy
Cooking
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Anthracosis
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Enterobacteriaceae Infections
Bronchial Diseases
Environmental Exposure
General Medicine
Environmental exposure
medicine.disease
Dermatology
Occupational Diseases
Pneumonia
Spain
Biofuels
Metallurgy
Female
Differential diagnosis
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15792129
- Volume :
- 48
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archivos de Bronconeumología (English Edition)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....77e513f356b4e3264f0131cc56419771