Open AccessA 46-year-old man with tracheomegaly, tracheal diverticulosis, and bronchiectasis: Mounier-Kuhn syndrome
Author(s) -
Ashish Jaiswal,
Sushil Kumar Munjal,
Rupak Singla,
Vidushi Jain,
Digamber Behera
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.95337
Subject(s) - medicine , tracheomalacia , bronchiectasis , malacia , diverticulosis , tracheobronchomalacia , respiratory tract , bronchography , chronic bronchitis , bronchitis , chronic cough , bronchoscopy , respiratory system , dermatology , surgery , airway , asthma , lung
Lower respiratory tract infection is one of the common causes of morbidity in India which is occasionally undiagnosed. In this regard tracheobronchomegaly is one of those conditions which masquerade as chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis and are usually undiagnosed. It is a well-defined clinical and radiologic entity characterized by marked dilatation of the trachea and the central bronchi and is frequently associated with recurrent lower respiratory tract infection. Tracheobronchomegaly has been described by a variety of names, including Mounier-Kuhn syndrome, tracheal diverticulosis, tracheobronchiectasis, tracheocele, tracheomalacia, and tracheobronchopathia malacia.