Delayed Complications of Mustard Gas Poisoning in the Tracheobronchial Tree

Prakash Sayami; Hiroshi Okitsu; Masahiro Tsuboi; Hiroshi Saito; Yasushi Matsushima; Ryuta Amemiya; Kenkichi Oho; Yoshihiro Hayata

doi:10.18907/jjsre.11.4_364

The Journal of the Japan Society for Respiratory Endoscopy

Online ISSN : 2186-0149
Print ISSN : 0287-2137
ISSN-L : 0287-2137

Delayed Complications of Mustard Gas Poisoning in the Tracheobronchial Tree

Prakash Sayami, Hiroshi Okitsu, Masahiro Tsuboi, Hiroshi Saito, Yasushi Matsushima, Ryuta Amemiya, Kenkichi Oho, Yoshihiro Hayata

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Keywords: Chemical bomb injury, Mustard Gas, Tracheobronchial Stenosis

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1989 Volume 11 Issue 4 Pages 364-368

DOI https://doi.org/10.18907/jjsre.11.4_364

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Abstract

A 25-year-old man who sustained a chemical bomb injury in the Iran-Iraq war developed symptoms of shortness of breath, wheezing and cough for the last three years. On bronchofiberscopy an irregular zig-zag type of stenosis with multiple pseudodiverticulae formation was observed in the trachea and major bronchi. To our knowledge this delayed complication of burn injury due to a chemical bomb containing mustard gas has not been perviously reported.

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