title: Deficiency of cartilage in the segmental bronchi of a child: congenital or acquired?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University of Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Elfeldt
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thies
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Schröder
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Seiffert
mesh_terms: 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