Open AccessMounier-Kuhn Syndrome
Author(s) -
Şevket Özkaya,
Ünal Şahin,
Aziz Gümüş,
Asiye Yavuz,
Songül Özyurt
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of bronchology and interventional pulmonology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.648
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1944-6586
pISSN - 1948-8270
DOI - 10.1097/lbr.0b013e3181f43172
Subject(s) - medicine , bronchoscopy , presentation (obstetrics) , airway , tracheobronchomalacia , chronic bronchitis , sputum , bronchitis , bronchography , radiology , surgery , pathology , tuberculosis
Mounier-Kuhn syndrome is a rare clinical and radiologic entity characterized by the pathologic dilatation of the trachea and bronchi. The clinical features consist of expiratory central airway collapse, airflow limitation, and clinical presentation similar to chronic bronchitis. A 73-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with the complaints of cough, sputum, dyspnea, and recurrent bronchitis. The radiologic, spirometric, and bronchoscopic findings showed the Mounier-Kuhn syndrome. We describe characteristic bronchoscopic and spirometric features of the Mounier-Kuhn syndrome.