Dyspnea, focal wheeze, and a slow growing endobronchial tumor

Endobronchial lipoma causing progressive dyspnea

We describe a 63-year-old male who presented with progressive exertional dyspnea, post-obstructive pneumonia and chest CT findings of an endobronchial lesion. Bronchoscopy revealed an endobronchial lipoma, which was resected using snare electrocautery. Complete resolution of the patient's symptoms was noted following bronchoscopic resection.

A Slow-Growing Hand Mass

Endobronchial Metastasis of Pheochromocytoma 25 Years after Primary Tumor

There are few reported cases of endobronchial metastasis of pheochromocytoma literature. We present here a 56-year old woman who underwent left lower lobectomy of lung, following pneumonia with unresolved chest radiographs. Computed tomography showed a lobulated soft tissue mass, measuring, 38×27 mm, at the perivascular space of anterior mediastinum. The resected specimen, showed lobulated tumo...

Endobronchial solitary fibrous tumor

Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a mesenchymal neoplasm that appears primarily in the pleura and rarely in intrapulmonary or endobronchial topography. The authors report the case of a 47-year-old woman who presented obstructive respiratory symptoms for 4 years. The chest computed tomography and bronchoscopy showed an obstructive polypoid lesion located between the trachea and the left main bronc...

COMMENTS AND OPINIONS Fast-Growing and Slow-Growing Melanomas

at the donor site, which may be responsible for the Koebner phenomenon . Many questions arise out of this observation. Is the degree of trauma important in precipitating the phenomenon? Is the activity lesion specific or generalized? What are the factors responsible for the survival of transplanted melanocytes? Are these patients vulnerable to recurrence or loss of pigment in the lesions treate...