A patient with an inspiratory stridor 25 years after lung surgery
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A 32-year-old female regularly attended the outpatient clinic for pulmonology with recurrent pulmonary infections. Her medical history revealed an operation on the right lung 25 years previously for persistent tuberculosis in that lung. The nature of the operation was unknown at clinical admission. Besides this, asthma had been diagnosed 2 years previously. In a regular visit, the patient complained of progressive exertional dyspnoea, coughing and sputum expectoration. Chest auscultation revealed stridor. Chest radiography is shown in figure 1 A patient with an inspiratory stridor 25 years after lung surgery
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تاریخ انتشار 2008