Tracheopathia osteoplastica.
Only four cases of tracheopathia osteoplastica have been reported in Britain in the past 110 years. Ten further cases are now reported; in two the diagnosis was made at bronchoscopy. It is suggested that the reputed rarity of the condition in Britain is not the whole picture.
D000368:Aged; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D002356:Cartilage / Q000473:pathology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000473:pathology; D006396:Hematemesis / Q000473:pathology; D006417:Hematuria / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009092:Mucous Membrane / Q000473:pathology; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000473:pathology; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006113:United Kingdom