Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy findings
The numbers of children with isolated TM, isolated BM and TBM were nine
(13.8%), 48 (73.8%) and eight (12.3%), respectively. The distribution
of age and type of airway malacia are shown in Figure 1 and the
localizations of airway malacias are shown in Table 1 . Fifteen
patients (23.1%) had associated laryngomalacia. Localizations with
severity of airway collapse in tracheomalacias are shown inTable 2 . Among all bronchomalacias, 32 (57.1%) were detected
solely on the right lung, 15 (26.8%) solely on the left lung and 9
(16.1%) on both. One patient had tracheal bronchus and isolated BM was
located on this. In 27 (41.5%) patients, there were co-existing
pathological findings: variation of bronchial opening (n:15),
granulation tissue (n:10), tracheal and/or bronchial stenosis (n:9),
subglottic stenosis (n:4), tracheoesophageal fistula (TOF) opening
(n:2), nasopharyngeal collapse (n:1) and complete tracheal ring (n:1).