CILIARY DISORIENTATION - A POSSIBLE VARIANT OF PRIMARY CILIARY DYSKINESIA

Authors
RUTMAN A CULLINAN P WOODHEAD M COLE PJ WILSON R
Citation
A. Rutman et al., CILIARY DISORIENTATION - A POSSIBLE VARIANT OF PRIMARY CILIARY DYSKINESIA, Thorax, 48(7), 1993, pp. 770-771
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Respiratory System
Journal title
Thorax → ACNP
ISSN journal
00406376
Volume
48
Issue
7
Year of publication
1993
Pages
770 - 771
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-6376(1993)48:7<770:CD-APV>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Random ciliary orientation has recently been proposed as a variant of primary ciliary dyskinesia. We report a 12 year old boy with all the f eatures of primary ciliary dyskinesia and absent nasal mucociliary cle arance in whom repeated biopsies of the nasal epithelium showed normal ciliary beat frequency. The only abnormality discovered was disorient ation of the central microtubules of his cilia.