A total of 538 chest CT scans were analyzed,
the mean age was 65.4 years,
with a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 98 years.
The gender ratio was 236 (44%) women vs 302 (56%) men.
In this study 198 patients (37%) had trauma,
and 340 patients had history of respiratory symptoms without trauma.
We found that 11 patients (5.6%) with trauma had tracheal diverticula,
9 patients were men and 2 women,
compared to 15 patients (4.4%) who had respiratory symptoms without trauma,
10 patients were men and 5 women.
Within this group,
10 patients (66.6%) had chronic cough,
4 patients (26.6&) had pneumonia,
and 1 patient (6.6%) had dyspnea.
There was no statistical difference (p=0.5) in the presence of tracheal diverticula between the two groups.
Fig. 2: Computed Tomography Scan chest. Axial and coronal multiplanar reformatted, tracheal diverticula with a maximum axis of 1.4 cm is observed in 52-year-old male patient who visits the emergency department for chronic cough.
References: Department of Radiology, The American British Cowdray Medical Center, I.A.P. Mexico, 2016.
Fig. 3: Graph. Frequency of tracheal diverticula in trauma and chronic cough and its relation to gender, total of 15 respiratory symptoms and 11 trauma, both with tracheal diverticula.
References: Department of Radiology, The American British Cowdray Medical Center, I.A.P. Mexico, 2016.