Bronchial Atresia with Transient Spontaneous Disappearance of a Mucocele

Internal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 974-978

  Miyahara, Nobuaki ^a   Eda, Ryosuke ^a   Makihara, Shigeki ^a   Maeda, Tadashi ^a   Aoe, Keisuke ^a   Kunichika, Naomi ^a   Kohara, Hiroyuki ^a   Takeyama, Hiroyasu ^a   Harada, Mine ^b  

^a NATIONAL SANYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchial obstruction; Bronchocele; Collateral pathway; Focal emphysema

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BRONCHUS; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MUCOCELE; RADIOGRAPHY; REMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; BRONCHI; BRONCHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUCOCELE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0033255275     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.974     Document Type: Article

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