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To the Editor: The Image in Clinical Medicine entitled "Bronchial Cast" (March 28 issue)¹ describes a patient who had had respiratory symptoms for six months and who expectorated a bronchial cast. However, the authors do not mention the outcome. Was the patient cured after coughing up this rather large cast? Most physicians are still interested in answers to such questions.

Douglas R. Migden, D.O., J.D.
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA 98111
drmigden@aol.com

1. Studer SM, Terry PB. Bronchial cast. N Engl J Med 2002;346:981-981. [Free Full Text]

To the Editor: The differential diagnosis of cough productive of bronchial casts is considerable,¹ and such coughs are often associated with pulmonary disease that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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