Technical Report No. 14-87
Tracheobronchial calcification in Adult Health Study subjects
Fukuya T, Mihara F, Kudo S, Russell WJ, Delongchamp RR, Vaeth M, Hosoda YEditor’s note: A publication based on this report was published in Acta Radiol 30:277-80, 1989.
Summary
Tracheobronchial calcification is reportedly more frequent in women than in men. Ten cases of extensive tracheobronchial calcification were identified on chest radiographs of 1,152 consecutively examined Adult Health Study subjects, for a prevalence of 0.87%. An additional 51 subjects having this coded diagnosis were identified among 11,758 members of this fixed population sample. Sixty of the 61 subjects were women. The manifestations and extent of this type of calcification and its correlations with clinical and histopathologic features, which have not been previously reported, are described here.
Tracheobronchial calcification is reportedly more frequent in women than in men. Ten cases of extensive tracheobronchial calcification were identified on chest radiographs of 1,152 consecutively examined Adult Health Study subjects, for a prevalence of 0.87%. An additional 51 subjects having this coded diagnosis were identified among 11,758 members of this fixed population sample. Sixty of the 61 subjects were women. The manifestations and extent of this type of calcification and its correlations with clinical and histopathologic features, which have not been previously reported, are described here.