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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:1200-1201
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Brief Communication

Stenotic bridging bronchus: A very rare entity

Salih Topcu, MD a , Serife Tuba Liman, MD a , * , Hasan Tahsin Sarisoy, MD b , Abdulkadir Babaoglu, MD c , Emre Ozker, MD d

a Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
b Department of Radiology, The Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
c Department of Pediatric Cardiology, The Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
d Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey.

Received for publication December 2, 2005; accepted for publication January 13, 2006.

* Address for reprints: Serife Tuba Liman, MD, Gogus Cerrahisi AD, Kocaeli Universitesi Tip Fakultesi, Umuttepe Kocaeli, Turkey (Email: tubaliman@kou.edu.tr).

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Bridging bronchus (BB) is one of the rarely seen congenital anomalies. BB is generally associated with other congenital anomalies, especially vascular anomalies. Congenital tracheal stenosis (CTS) is also seen rarely. Here we present a patient with a stenotic BB and bronchus suis anomaly.

Clinical Summary

A 10-month-old boy was admitted to the hospital with the complaints of respiratory distress and cough. He had wheezing since he was 2 months old. He had been given antimicrobial and bronchodilator treatment several times for bronchiolitis, but the symptoms had recurred frequently.

After medical treatment, his complaints were improved but recurred on his 10th day of hospitalization in our hospital. Chest radiography and thorax tomography revealed an abnormal branching and stenosis of the bronchial tree (Figure 1, A-C). Three-dimensional computed tomographic (CT) imaging was performed, and it demonstrated that there was a carina formed by a right upper lobe bronchus (bronchus suis) and a stenotic BB (Figure 1, . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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