[Osteochondroplastic tracheobronchopathy--relation to rhinitis atrophica and iron deficiency].

Abstract

Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica (TO) is a rare disease with accumulation of bony and cartilaginous nodules in the tracheal and bronchial mucosa. In some cases rhinitis atrophica (ozena) has been associated. A case of TO coexisting with ozena and iron deficiency anaemia was described.

• Authors: E Wiatr, M Pirozyński, P Dobrzyński
• Journal: Pneumonologia i alergologia polska (Pneumonol Alergol Pol) Vol. 61 Issue 11-12 Pg. 641-6 ( 1993) ISSN: 0867-7077 [Print] Poland
• Vernacular Title: Tracheobronchopatia osteochondroplastyczna--relacja z ozena i niedokrwistościa z niedoboru zelaza.
• PMID: 8148767 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Anemia, Hypochromic (complications)
• Calcinosis (diagnostic imaging)
• Female
• Humans
• Osteochondrodysplasias (diagnosis, etiology)
• Radiography
• Rhinitis, Atrophic (complications)
• Tracheal Diseases (diagnosis, etiology)
• Tracheal Stenosis (etiology)