Deficiency of cartilage in the segmental bronchi of a child: congenital or acquired?
The case of a 4-year-old girl suffering from a severe bronchopneumonia of the left lower lobe is presented. Microscopically no cartilage was found in the resected lobe distal to the lobar bronchus. The case is unusual because a congenital lobar emphysema associated with an aplasia of bronchial cartilage has to be considered as well as secondary cartilage destruction due to chronic relapsing inflammations.
Elfeldt
R J
RJ
Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University of Kiel, Germany.
Schmidt
D
D
Thies
J
J
Schröder
D W
DW
Seiffert
P
P
D001980:Bronchi / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D001995:Bronchography; D002356:Cartilage / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology