Treatment of plastic bronchitis in acute chest syndrome of sickle cell disease with intratracheal rhDNase
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Treatment of plastic bronchitis in acute chest syndrome of sickle cell disease with intratracheal rhDNase.
Plastic bronchitis, a condition associated with widespread mucous plugging of the tracheobronchial tree, is an increasingly recognised bronchoscopic finding in acute chest syndrome of sickle cell disease. Removal of casts by bronchoscopy is technically challenging. We describe a child with acute chest syndrome where bronchoscopic removal of extensive tracheobronchial plastic casts was facilitat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.88.7.626