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Chest X-ray.
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A 30-year-old male was observed at the emergency room (ER) in 2017 for an exacerbation of allergic asthma, in this episode it was performed a chest X-ray (Fig. 1) showing changes compatible with BE.
Computed tomography.
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Given severe hypoxemia, difficult to treat, it was done a computed tomography (Fig. 2) that demonstrated saccular BE, mostly located in the middle lobe.
Functional respiratory study.
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Functional respiratory study showed irreversible obstruction (Fig. 3, Fig. 4).