Primary diffuse tracheobronchial amyloidosis
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Primary diffuse tracheobronchial amyloidosis.
The case is reported of a woman who died at the age of 36 years from obstructive respiratory failure due to diffuse tracheobronchial amyloidosis which had caused symptoms for six years. When first seen her symptoms of wheezing cough and mucopurulent sputum sometimes streaked with blood were of recent onset, but on bronchogram and bronchoscopy her disease was already widespread. Appearances at b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.27.5.620