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Bilateral partial bronchial obstruction due to broncholithiasis treated with laser therapy
R W Snyder1, M Unger, R W Sawicki
1Department of Medicine, Abington Memorial Hospital, Pa, USA.
Chest
|January 24, 1998
Abstract:
The previously recognized modes of therapy for symptomatic broncholithiasis are broncholithectomy via surgery or bronchoscopy. A 46-year-old woman with bilateral partial bronchial obstruction was treated with Nd-YAG laser with complete resolution of symptoms and of airway obstruction.