Imaging of the rib cage was analyzed by computed tomography (CT) in 14 children (mean age 3,5±1,25 years) with congenital malformation – tracheal bronchus. Tracheal bronchus found all an emergency on right side. The malformed has a different origin: from middle segment trachea, lower and most near bifurcation trachea. This bronchial is clinico-imaged bronchopulmonary changes pneumonic infiltrat...

BACKGROUND Tracheal bronchus is considered a rare, congenital anomaly, which implies the abnormal origin of a bronchus. When related to repetitive infections the bronchus must be resected, usually via an open procedure. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to present the case of a patient with tracheal bronchus of the upper right lobe who presented with repetitive pneumonias. Additionally, this...

The diagnosis of bronchial carcinoma was confirmed in 8 of 17 patients who presented with the radiographic appearances of a combination of right upper and middle lobar opacification. In 9 patients the cause of the combination of lobar shadows was inflammatory, in 2 destructive. This experience serves to emphasize that the investigation of lobar and segmental shadows,j;n whatever combination, mu...

The metabolism of benzo(a)pyrene has been investigated in cultured normal human bronchus, colon, duodenum, and esophagus obtained from the same patient. The highest total metabolism was found in bronchus and duodenum, while the highest mean binding level was observed in the bronchus followed, in order, by the esophagus, duodenum, and trans verse colon. A 30-fold interindividual variation in the...

Disruption of a mainstem bronchus is a rare but dreaded complication of pneumonectomy. After an anatomic study on cadavers, we successfully used a video mediastinoscope to close a postpneumonectomy main bronchus fistula via a cervical incision.