Plastic Bronchitis in a Previously Healthy Child
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Fatal plastic bronchitis with eosinophilic casts in a previously healthy child
Plastic bronchitis is a rare disease characterized by the recurrent formation of branching mucoid bronchial casts that are large and more cohesive than those that occur in ordinary mucus plugging. Casts may vary in size and can be spontaneously expectorated, but some require bronchoscopy for removal. Plastic bronchitis can therefore present as an acute life-threatening emergency if obstruction ...
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plastic bronchitis (pb) refers to the presence of inspissated bronchial casts (bc) is uncommon in children.our case presented with subcutaneous emphysema as the dominant manifestation and was suspected to have foreign body in airway, but bronchoscopy revealed a bronchial cast. subcutaneous emphysema as the initial/sole manifestation of plastic bronchitis is very rare in children.
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عنوان ژورنال: Chest
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0012-3692
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2016.08.1060