Endobronchial hamartoma coexisting with lung cancer

Endobronchial hamartoma mimicking malignant lung tumor contralateral endobronchial metastasis

RATIONALE Endobronchial hamartoma, the most common benign lung tumor, is located in the bronchus, and it easily mimics lung cancer or bronchial metastasis. Endobronchial hamartoma can cause coughing, hemoptysis, and pulmonary infection; thus, it should be treated right away by surgery or fiberoptic bronchoscopy. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a rare case of endobronchial hamartoma in which the cl...

Endobronchial Hamartoma

Bronchial pleomorphic adenoma coexisting with lung cancer.

Pleomorphic adenoma usually occurs in the salivary glands but rarely in the trachea or bronchi. A 71-year-old man had abnormal shadows on a chest X-ray. Chest CT revealed one tumor in the right basal segment of the lung and another, in the left main bronchus. Bronchoscopic biopsy of the right tumor revealed well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. Right lower lobectomy and lymph node dissec...

Surgical management of endobronchial hamartoma

to have mass lesion in the left main bronchus [Figure 1]. Fiber-optic bronchoscopy was done which revealed an endobronchial lesion in the left main bronchus [Figure 2]. Biopsy, however, was inconclusive, and therefore, a repeat biopsy with a larger chunk of tissue was done which also was inconclusive. The lesion was purely endobronchial, and in one of the biopsies, a suspicion for carcinoid tum...

Endobronchial anthracosis with concurrent primary lung cancer.

Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo State University of New York School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA Department of Pathology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA Department of Interventional Pulmonology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York...