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Article1 December 1945BRONCHOLITHIASIS: REPORT OF TEN CASESJ. ROBERT FOX, M.D., LOUIS H. CLERF, M.D., F.A.C.P.J. ROBERT FOX, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, LOUIS H. CLERF, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-23-6-955 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptBroncholiths have been recognized in medical literature for centuries.1In our time, with the impetus medical diagnosis has been given by improved technic in bronchology, roentgenology and biochemical analysis, this entity has changed its disposition from that of a medical curiosity to one of an accurately conceived disease. Because of the relative infrequency with which this disease occurs, broncholithiasis has often been neglected in the differential diagnosis of bronchial obstruction. As a result patients have found themselves erroneously classified among the more common diseases causing bronchial obstruction, thereby losing the advantage of an early diagnosis. By such delay not only...Bibliography1. PAULALION SA: Les pierres de poumon du pleure, etc., Thesis before Academy of Medicine, Paris, 1891, p. 364. Google Scholar2. WELLS HG: Calcification and ossification, Arch. Int. Med., 1911, vii, 721. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Received for publication April 13, 1945.From the Department of Laryngology and Broncho-Esophagology, Jefferson Hospital. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byATELECTASIS OF THE RIGHT MIDDLE LOBE RESULTING FROM PERFORATION OF TUBERCULOUS LYMPH NODES INTO BRONCHI IN ADULTS*ABRAHAM G. COHEN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Expectoration of abnormal substances and particles including parasitesBRONCHOLITHIASISXC Broncholithiasis 1 December 1945Volume 23, Issue 6Page: 955-959 ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 December 1945 PDF downloadLoading ...
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