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. 2024 Jul 1;41(4):305-306.
doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_132_24. Epub 2024 Jun 28.

A 58-year-old man with unexplained cough and dyspnoea

Ganesh Narwade  1 , Rohit Kumar  1 , Manu Madan  2 , A J Mahendran  2 , Pranav Ish  2 , Alpana Srivastava  3 , Nitesh Gupta  2
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A 58-year-old man with unexplained cough and dyspnoea

Ganesh Narwade et al. Lung India. .
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
(a and b) Selected sections of chest CT mediastinal window. Arrows point out calcified nodules in anterolateral walls of the trachea and bilateral main bronchi in the chest CT images
Figure 2
Figure 2
Bronchoscopic view at the distal trachea and carina showing multiple hard nodular lesions projecting from the anterolateral walls into the lumen
Figure 3
Figure 3
(a) Endobronchial cryobiopsy; (b) histopathology slide of the endobronchial cryobiopsy showing marked hyperplasia of surface epithelium, submucosal cartilage formation and lamellar bone
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