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Table 1 Pathologic diagnoses in 16 patients with stenoses at brochoscopy

From: Tumoral and non-tumoral trachea stenoses: evaluation with three-dimensional CT and virtual bronchoscopy

Diagnosis

No of patients (n = 16)

No of stenosis (n = 21)

Malignant diseases (n = 11)

Invasion by adjacent cancer

  

   -Lung cancer

6

6

   -Thyroid cancer

2

2

   -Esophageal cancer

2

2

Metastases

  

   -Small cell carcinoma

1

4

Benign disease (n = 5)

Tumors

  

   -Hamartoma

1

1

   -Papillomatosis

1

3

Post tracheal intubation stenoses

3

3