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MERVIN C. MYERSON, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(5):627-634.

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When performing bronchoscopy for conditions the main symptom of which is dyspnea, the possibility of compression of the trachea or bronchus by enlarged tuberculous glands must be borne in mind. Not only may there be compression, but necrotic glandular tissue may be found lying free in the bronchial tree. Patients with enlarged tracheobronchial glands causing respiratory distress are usually thought to be suffering from foreign body in the air passages, enlarged thymus or asthma.

Authorities are agreed that tuberculosis of the tracheobronchial lymph nodes occurs in nearly all children. This condition is not recognized unless it is especially sought for or the glands become sufficiently large to compress the trachea or a bronchus. Peshkin and Fineman¹ found three children among several hundred who came to their asthma clinic to be suffering from the effects of enlarged tuberculous tracheobronchial glands.

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Footnotes
Submitted for publication, June 1, 1930.

Read at a Meeting of the American Bronchoscopic Society, Atlantic City, N. J., May 27, 1930.

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