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- Title
Tracheobronchomalacia.
- Authors
Kujala, Nicholas G.; Healey, Terrance T.
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of the diagnostic symptoms of tracheobronchomalacia disease found in a 75-year-old female smoker. The patient was previously affected with the hypertension disease. She reflected the symptoms of breath shortage, fever and consistent cough. It also discusses the first sign of the disease which arose in the patient in the form of intestinal abnormalities in the periphery of lungs during her chest radiography and high-resolution chest computed tomography (CT).
- Subjects
TRACHEOBRONCHOMALACIA; CIGARETTE smokers; HYPERTENSION in old age; HYPERTENSION in women; TOMOGRAPHY
- Publication
Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 2012, Vol 95, Issue 2, p38
- ISSN
1086-5462
- Publication type
Case Study