Indiran Venkatraman
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Lung India. 2017 Jan-Feb;34(1):92-94. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.197103.
Although tuberculosis is a rather common disease in the Indian subcontinent, tracheobronchial involvement in tuberculosis is still rare. Fistula formation between bronchi is very rare considering that only four cases have been published in the English literature. We present a case of multislice computed tomography (CT) and virtual bronchoscopy diagnosis of interbronchial fistula in a patient with tuberculosis along with a review of literature of the same. This happens to be the smallest of the interbronchial fistula identified on imaging so far and the first case from the Indian subcontinent. This is also the first instance where the diagnosis appears to have been made using only multislice CT generated virtual bronchoscopy without the aid of fiber optic bronchoscopy.
尽管结核病在印度次大陆是一种相当常见的疾病,但气管支气管受累于结核病的情况仍然罕见。考虑到英文文献中仅发表了4例,支气管之间形成瘘管的情况非常罕见。我们报告一例通过多层计算机断层扫描(CT)和虚拟支气管镜诊断的结核病患者支气管间瘘管病例,并对相关文献进行综述。这是迄今为止影像学上发现的最小的支气管间瘘管,也是来自印度次大陆的首例。这也是首次仅使用多层CT生成的虚拟支气管镜在没有纤维支气管镜辅助的情况下做出诊断的病例。