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An 88-year-old woman with advanced Parkinson's disease (stage V on the Yahr scale) had difficulty in expectoration and underwent tracheostomy in 1999. In July 2004, granulation tissue was formed in the tracheal lumen at the tip of the tracheostomy tube, and a standard type silicone T-tube was inserted. Thereafter, she was cared for at home, where she was doing well until early March 2009, when ...

Background and aims: The prognosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma varies according to the degree of invasion of the tumor in the organ wall. When the trachea and the main bronchus are involved in esophageal carcinoma, the disease is classified as incurable and the mortality is lower than that for patients who can be treated with curative surgery. To evaluate the carcinoma invading the tr...

To cite: Fernández-Bussy S, Labarca G, Folch E, et al. BMJ Case Reports Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2012-007354 DESCRIPTION A 58-year-old man with a history of multiple myeloma was admitted to the hospital with progressive dyspnoea and hypoxemia. Chest examination revealed decreased breath sounds bilaterally. Blood examination revealed anaemia. Chest x-ray...

INTRODUCTION Extracutaneous glomus tumors occurring in the bronchus is very rare. Complete resection is basic procedure for treatment of glomus tumor. We present a glomus tumor of the left main bronchus that was successfully treated with rigid bronchoscopy followed by sleeve resection of the left main bronchus. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 56-year-old man underwent two term resections to glomus tum...

To compare the performance of convex probe endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) with conventional endobronchial biopsy (EBB) or transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) in patients with mediastinal, and coexisting endobronchial or peripheral lesions.Retrospective review of records of patients undergoing diagnostic EBUS-TBNA and conventional bronchoscopy in 2014....

BACKGROUND Conventional bronchoscopy with brushing alone for diagnosing peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) is of low sensitivity. A manual mapping method was introduced and evaluated in this study, which could be routinely applied with bronchoscopic brushing to improve the sensitivity for malignant PPLs. METHODS This mapping method involves the bronchoscopist drawing the route with a series ...

BACKGROUND Recently, multi-planar reconstruction of the three-dimensional (3D) spiral chest CT scan has demonstrated superiority in the evaluation of the tracheobronchial tree. The goal of this study was to measure the lengths of the right and left main bronchi and their anteroposterior (AP) and transverse (TR) diameters using the 3D and two-dimensional (2D) images in the same adult respectivel...

BACKGROUND At present, it has not yet been determined whether metastasis can be transferred cross-lobe to peripheral lymph nodes (LNs) from other lobes in early stages of lung cancer, especially without any direct involvement to the pleura and parenchyma of the lobe. This study was conducted to investigate this issue. METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted at the Chinese Academy of Me...

In children, it has been shown that the angles of the tracheobronchial bifurcation total approximately 80 degrees; the overall mean of the right bronchial angle is about 30o, while the left bronchial angle is about 50o. This tracheobronchial relationship may explain why the tracheal tube is more likely to enter the more vertical and wider right main stem bronchus than the more obliquely placed ...