The Radiographic Features of Tracheopathia Osteoplastica

Howland, Willard J.; Good, C. Allen

doi:10.1148/71.6.847

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“…Sometimes the process has a symptomatological presentation involving cough, dyspnea, pharyngeal tickling, hemat ic expectoration or repetitive respiratory infections [1,2,4,5,7], Hematic expecto ration was the major symptom found in 3 of the cases described here. Bronchorrhea was experienced by 1 patient.…”

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“…Howland et al [2] stress the importance of tracheal tomography, since irregular re duction of the tracheal lumen involving wall calcifications are of great diagnostic value in cases of diffuse tracheal lesions.…”

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“…The disease is characterized by the presence of scattered cartilaginous and/or bony areas in the submucosa apparently un related to the normal cartilage [2][3][4][5][6][7], The first known case was described by Wilks [8] in 1857. Recently Marlin [9] reviewed 245 cases recorded until 1974.…”

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Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica

et al. 1981

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6 cases of tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica are discussed. Diagnoses were established ante mortem. Endoscopic examination was performed in 3 patients because of hematic expectoration, in the other 3 cases the indication was given by chronic bronchorrhea, slow-resolving pneumonia and suspected neoplasia, respectively. Calcification and cartilaginous areas were restricted to a small portion of the tracheobronchial tree in 1 of the cases; in 3 cases the disease affected the trachea and both main bronchi, whereas it was found markedly spread throughout the trachea in the last 2 patients. Tracheal tomography and bronchoscopic examination are considered the methods of choice for an ante mortem diagnosis of this disease.

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Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica

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“…In some cases rhinitis atrophica (ozaena) has been associated (Larsen, 1937). Plain chest radiographs will not show any evidence of the tracheobronchial condition, but tomographs may reveal the lesions narrowing the lumen of the trachea -and bronchi (Howland and Good, 1958).…”

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Tracheobronchopathia osteoplastica: Its relationship to primary tracheobronchial amyloidosis

Sakula

1968

Thorax

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“…The trachea can be dilated in tracheobronchomegaly and tracheomalacia; and narrowed in tracheopathia osteochondroplastica, relapsing polychondritis, and 'saber sheath' trachea. In tracheopathia osteochondroplastica, multiple protruding nodular calcifications and ossifications are formed in tissue other than cartilaginous rings in the tracheal and bronchial walls (10), and can cause luminal narrowing and obstructive pneumonia (8,12). Such findings did not occur in the present study.…”

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Tracheobronchial Calcification in Members of a Fixed Population Sample

Fukuya

Mihara²,

Kudo³

et al. 1989

Acta Radiol

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In a review of the chest radiographs of 1152 consecutively examined subjects, 10 cases (0.87%) of extensive tracheobronchial calcification were identified. In addition, 51 subjects having this coded diagnosis were identified among II 758 members of a fixed population sample. Sixty of these 61 subjects were women. Tracheobronchial calcification usually appeared after the age of 60. The subjects' clinical and other radiologic diagnoses were reviewed and tracheobronchial calcification appeared to have no clinical significance. Histologic findings in autopsied cases showed the calcifications and ossificiations to be in the cartilaginous rings themselves. However, the reason for the overwhelming prevalence of this entity in women remains to be resolved.

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The Radiographic Features of Tracheopathia Osteoplastica

Cited by 42 publications

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Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica

Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica

Tracheobronchopathia osteoplastica: Its relationship to primary tracheobronchial amyloidosis

Tracheobronchial Calcification in Members of a Fixed Population Sample

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