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Mounier-Kuhn syndrome


tracheomegaly, tracheobronchomegaly
  • inheritance: (?) autosomal recessive

clinical findings: XR findings:
  • tracheobronchomegaly (trachea equal to or greater than the width of the tracheal vert. body.
  • increase in lumen of the trachea with Valsalva and narrowing with Muller maneuver.
  • saclike recesses
  • pulmonary fibrosis
  • bullae


Jon T. Lee, MD  -  6 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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