The non-allergic wheeze.
Nearly every major disease of the lungs may be at one time associated with non-allergic wheezing and simulate asthma. The physiological production of wheezing is associated with air flowing through narrowed bronchi, and experimentally it can be induced when a high negative pressure is made in a tuberculous cavity. Wheezing is important as an early diagnostic symptom of polypoid bronchial tumors, both malignant and benign. By constantly keeping in mind the lesions which mechanically produce bronchial conditions which may cause non-allergic wheeze, appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic measures may be instituted early in the course of these diseases.
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D001249:Asthma; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012135:Respiratory Sounds; D012137:Respiratory System