Tracheobronchomalacia presenting as infantile wheeze

D Vijayasekaran; S Kalpana; V E Vivekanandan

Tracheobronchomalacia presenting as infantile wheeze

Indian Pediatr. 2011 Nov 11;48(11):903-4.

Authors

D Vijayasekaran¹, S Kalpana, V E Vivekanandan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pulmonology, Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Egmore, Chennai, India. [email protected]

PMID: 22711148

Abstract

We report six months old infant with a history of recurrent wheeze, admitted for foreign body aspiration like presentation, where fibreoptic bronchoscopy revealed the diagnosis of tracheobronchomalacia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Infant
Male
Respiratory Sounds / diagnosis*
Respiratory Sounds / etiology
Respiratory Sounds / physiopathology
Tracheobronchomalacia / complications
Tracheobronchomalacia / diagnosis*
Tracheobronchomalacia / physiopathology