Primary diffuse tracheo-bronchial amyloidosis
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Primary diffuse tracheo-bronchial amyloidosis.
A. V. A., a 62-year-old housewife, born in Faro (in the Portuguese southern province of Algarve), had had an episode of haemoptyses at the age of 27; she was admitted to hospital, where mitral stenosis was diagnosed. There were no other symptoms at the time. The haemoptysis recurred at 40 and 43, again without other complaints. At 56 she had a respiratory illness with dyspnoea, cough, purulent ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.24.3.307