Tracheal diverticulum: a rare entity

Authors

  • Abhishek Agarwal Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, UP, India
  • Sudhanshu Kathuria Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, UP, India
  • Rachit Sharma Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, UP, India
  • Sachin Khanduri Department of Radio Diagnosis, Era’s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, UP, India

Keywords:

Tracheal diverticulum, Paratracheal air cyst, Hemoptysis

Abstract

Tracheal diverticulum is a rare entity usually found incidentally on CT thorax or post-mortem. We are here describing an interesting case of a 28 year old male who presented to us with hemoptysis and symptoms of lower respiratory tract infection and was found to have tracheal diverticulum on further evaluation by CT thorax and fibreoptic bronchoscopy.

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Published

2017-02-09

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