A right paratracheal air cyst caused by tracheal diverticula

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 315-319

  Sato, Tomohide ^a   Sasaki, Yuko ^a   Yamasaki, Motohisa ^a   Aragaki, Mikayo ^a   Mae, Sunao ^a   Irie, Tetsuya ^a   Sumi, Yuki ^a,b  

^a Nakano General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Paratracheal air cyst; Tracheal diverticulum

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFAZOLINE SODIUM; CEFOTIAM; CEFOTIAM DIHYDROCHLORIDE; DIATRIZOATE; PROTEIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PARATRACHEAL AIR CYST; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA DIVERTICULOSIS; VOCAL CORD;

AGED; AIR; BRONCHOSCOPY; CYSTS; DIVERTICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEAL DISEASES;

EID: 77749330318     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.2731     Document Type: Article

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