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Plastic bronchitis: new insights and a classification scheme.
Paediatric respiratory reviews - 1 Dec 2005
Madsen Priscilla, Shah Samir A, Rubin Bruce K
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Plastic bronchitis is a rare disease in which there is the formation of large gelatinous or rigid branching airway casts. The history of the disease is reviewed and a classification system is proposed based on our current understanding. This system classifies plastic bronchitis by clinical disease association and cast histology. A summary of the medical literature is included together with guidelines for...
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