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Localised obliterative bronchitis due to non-occupational mineral dust inhalation
M Meysman1, I Monsieur, M Noppen
1Respiratory Division, Department of Medicine, Academic Hospital, University of Brussels (AZ-VUB), Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels-Belgium. pnemnm.@az.vub.ac.be
Acta Clinica Belgica
|August 4, 2001
Abstract:
We present a 56-year-old woman with an infiltrate in the right middle lobe secondary to obstruction of the right middle lobe bronchus by extensive submucosal fibrosis. This unique stenotic lesion of a central bronchus was caused by a domestically acquired localised central obstructive bronchitis due to the inhalation of mixed dust fibers, in the absence of advanced silicosis. This complication is a rare presentation of the myriad of pulmonary diseases associated with mineral dust inhalation.