Diffuse panbronchiolitis: case report and review of the literature.

Diffuse panbronchiolitis is an uncommon disease of unknown aetiology mainly occurring in Asian races. Treatment with erythromycin acting through unclarified mechanisms is promising and may improve the poor prognosis currently associated with the disease. A case is presented illustrating how the imaging features of the disease, particularly on high-resolution computed tomography, may be used to support a diagnosis suggested on clinical grounds.

Lymphomatoid granulomatosis: case report and review of the literature.

Lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LG) is an uncommon disease now regarded by most authors as an unusual form of lymphoma with the ability to affect any bodily system. The disease and its complications may result in a spectrum of radiological appearances. A case illustrating how cerebral lesions may mimic demyelinating plaque, neoplasm or infection and how pulmonary lesions may lead to pneumopericardium is presented.

Chemodectoma of the trachea.

The case history is described of a patient with lower tracheal chemodectoma who presented with haemoptysis. After conservative management for eight years she represented with airways obstruction. Preoperative tumour embolisation was followed by laser ablation, stenting, and radiotherapy.

The effects of inspiratory muscle training on exercise performance in chronic airflow limitation.

Using a simple, inexpensive, at-home program, 12 patients with moderate-to-severe chronic air flow limitation trained their inspiratory muscles. All showed increased inspiratory muscle endurance with no change in inspiratory muscle strength. Seven of the twelve patients increased their endurance time for submaximal exercise beyond the 90% confidence limits determined by 2 pretraining tests (i.