Phillips G D, Smith E E, Millard F J
Dept of Thoracic Medicine, St. George's Hospital, London, UK.
Eur Respir J. 1994 Feb;7(2):412-4. doi: 10.1183/09031936.94.07020412.
Thoracic aortic aneurysms may produce breathlessness by compressing the tracheobronchial tree. We report a patient whose shortness of breath demonstrated a marked positional component, due to varying compression of her major airways by the lesion.
