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  1. Acute / chronic tracheobronchitis - croup in children
  2. Tuberculous tracheitis
  3. Sarcoidosis
  4. Wegener's Granulomatosis
  5. Amyloidosis (primary pulmonary type)
  6. Relapsing Polychondritis - also causes saddle-nose deformity
  7. Tracheopathica osteoplastica - rare benign disease of abnormal cartilage deposisition
  8. Rhinoscleroma - rare disorder in North America, caused by Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis
  9. Glomus tumor [2] - benign tumors, rare in trachea (usually occur in nail beds)

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  1. Braman SS, Grillo HC, Mark EJ. 1999. NEJM. 341(17):1292 (Case Record)
  2. Haver KE, Hartnick CJ, Ryan DP, et al. 2008. NEJM. 358(13):1382 abstract