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Respiration
; 67(4): 449-52, 2000.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-10940803
ABSTRACT
We studied the cases of three siblings with a history of chronic bronchitis and infertility. The electron-microscopic investigation of the tracheal and bronchial biopsies showed a ciliary defect consisting in the absence of the central microtubules and the transposition of a peripheral doublet. This is a rare and infrequently reported abnormality included in the primary ciliary diskinesia syndrome.