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Cough and stridor: who should investigate the patient?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

W. U. Hassan
Affiliation:
Sunderland
A. F. Henderson*
Affiliation:
Sunderland
*
Dr A. F. Henderson, Consultant Chest Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Sunderland SR2 7JE, England.

Abstract

Stridor is usually produced by obstruction in the upper airways. We present a case of stridor referred to the ENT Department in whom an endoscopic examination as far as the lower trachea showed no abnormality. A subsequent bronchoscopy in the Chest Department revealed a tumour in the right main bronchus.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1993

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