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Y Funato

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PubMed1992

[Operative indications for tracheobronchomalacia].

Tracheobronchomalacia in 3 children and 4 adults was reviewed, and operative indications were investigated. Tracheobronchomalacia in children differed from that in adults in that the lesion was localized and spontaneous healing was effected by cartilage growth and hardening. In adults, tracheobronchomalacia was characterized by a notch on the expiratory flow volume curve and higher V peak of inspiratory flow volume curve than that of expiratory curve. Operative indications for tracheobronchomalacia are BP higher than 28.2 cmH2O and delta CT higher than 15.4 cmH2O. Of 2 patients with tracheobronchomalacia in whom airway pressure was measured, one was a candidate for operation, and in the other, surgery was contraindicated because of low BP due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Adult↗
PubMed1991

Distribution of thymic tissue in the mediastinal adipose tissue.

The distribution of thymic tissue in the anterior mediastinal, retrocarinal, and preaortic fat was examined histologically in 27 autopsy subjects. Thymic tissue was found in the anterior mediastinal fat in 12 subjects (44.4%), in the retrocarinal fat in two (7.4%), and in the preaortic fat in none. The finding of ectopic thymic tissue in these areas has not been reported previously, would appear to be surgically inaccessible via a median sternotomy, and may be responsible in part for some of the failures of thymectomy in the treatment of myasthenia gravis.

Adipose Tissue↗