Demissie Zekewos, Zemedkun Nahom, Demile Abraham, Nega Berhanu, Bekuretsion Yonas, Getachew Bisrat, Berhanu Bethelhem
Department of Internal Medicine, Lancet General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Int Med Case Rep J. 2023 Nov 17;16:757-761. doi: 10.2147/IMCRJ.S438379. eCollection 2023.
This is a case of localized primary tracheobronchial amyloidosis in a patient who presented with upper airway obstruction. Tracheobronchial amyloidosis is a type of localized bronchopulmonary amyloidosis that is frequently overlooked. It involves the deposition of amyloid protein on the tracheal and bronchial tissue, leading to progressive tracheal stenosis and airway obstruction that can be seen on imaging as a tracheal mass. Because of its significant diagnostic difficulty and therapeutic conundrum, it ought to be considered in the differential diagnosis of upper airway symptoms with an unknown etiology.
这是一例表现为上气道梗阻的患者的局限性原发性气管支气管淀粉样变病例。气管支气管淀粉样变是一种常被忽视的局限性支气管肺淀粉样变类型。它涉及淀粉样蛋白在气管和支气管组织上的沉积,导致气管进行性狭窄和气道梗阻,在影像学上可表现为气管肿物。由于其显著的诊断困难和治疗难题,在病因不明的上气道症状的鉴别诊断中应考虑到它。