Assertion: bronchus's wall | /r/HasProperty | membranous malacia
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text: There are two anatomic forms of tracheomalacia, the classic soft/weak anterior tracheal cartilages (cartilaginous malacia) with a redundant posterior membranous wall (can be seen with tracheobronchomegaly-Mounier Kuhn syndrome) and excessive forward displacement of the membranous wall [membranous malacia, excessive dynamic airway collapse (EDAC)]. Caution must be used in evaluating patients with morbid obesity as most will have at least moderate EDAC and it is unclear how these patients fare with tracheoplasty.
text: It has 16-22 cartilaginous rings in the anterior and lateral walls (cartilaginous portion) and a thin band of smooth muscle in the posterior wall (membranous portion).