title: Idiopathic tracheal and bronchial stenosis in two pediatric patients.
abstract: Idiopathic tracheal stenosis, a rare benign chronic inflammatory and fibrotic entity, has previously been reported in the literature in adults, but never in children. Here we report two pediatric cases, one with the rarer condition of idiopathic bronchial stenosis, and we discuss the management and histopathologic findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Beddow
authors.forename: Alexander J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.forename: Mary N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Sheppard
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goldstraw
mesh_terms: D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002648:Child; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D004106:Dilatation; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*