Fukuya T, Mihara F, Kudo S, Russell W J, DeLongchamp R R, Vaeth M, Hosoda Y
Department of Clinical Studies, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan.
Acta Radiol. 1989 May-Jun;30(3):277-80.
In a review of the chest radiographs of 1152 consecutively examined subjects, 10 cases (0.87%) of extensive tracheobronchial calcification were identified. In addition, 51 subjects having this coded diagnosis were identified among 11,758 members of a fixed population sample. Sixty of these 61 subjects were women. Tracheobronchial calcification usually appeared after the age of 60. The subjects' clinical and other radiologic diagnoses were reviewed and tracheobronchial calcification appeared to have no clinical significance. Histologic findings in autopsied cases showed the calcifications and ossifications to be in the cartilaginous rings themselves. However, the reason for the overwhelming prevalence of this entity in women remains to be resolved.
在对1152例连续接受检查的受试者的胸部X光片进行回顾时，发现了10例（0.87%）广泛性气管支气管钙化病例。此外，在一个固定人群样本的11758名成员中，识别出51名有此编码诊断的受试者。这61名受试者中有60名是女性。气管支气管钙化通常在60岁以后出现。对受试者的临床和其他放射学诊断进行了回顾，气管支气管钙化似乎没有临床意义。尸检病例的组织学检查结果显示，钙化和骨化发生在软骨环本身。然而，这种情况在女性中普遍存在的原因仍有待解决。
