Severe bronchomalacia in a 65-year-old man treated with stent insertion instead of surgical bronchoplasty.
Bronchomalacia in adults is rare. A case is reported here of a 65-year-old man with severe cough and mucostasis, caused by a benign bronchomalacia of the ventral wall of the left main bronchus. This was treated successfully with the insertion of a silicone Dumon stent as an alternative to surgical bronchoplasty.
Sutedja
T G
TG
Departments of Pulmonary Medicine ziekenhuis de Heel Zaandam and the Free University Hospital Amsterdam The Netherlands.
de Graaf
J C
JC
Schramel
F M
FM
Van Kralingen
K W
KW
Postmus
P E
PE