Endobronchial hamartoma with recurrent pneumonia

Endobronchial Hamartoma as a Cause of Pneumonia

BACKGROUND Post-obstructive pneumonia occurs in the presence of airway obstruction, usually caused by lung cancer. However, there are cases of bronchial obstruction due to benign origin such as foreign bodies and benign endobronchial tumors, which are often misdiagnosed. CASE REPORT A 66-year-old man was referred to our hospital due to high fever with abnormal shadow in the right lung. Chest ...

Endobronchial Hamartoma

Childhood recurrent pneumonia caused by endobronchial sutures

BACKGROUND Recurrent pneumonia is defined as more than two episodes of pneumonia in one year or three or more episodes anytime in life. Common clinical scenarios leading to recurrent pneumonia include anatomical abnormalities of respiratory tract, immunodeficiency, congenital heart diseases, primary ciliary dyskinesia, etc. CASE REPORT A school-aged girl suffered from 1-2 episodes of pneumoni...

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 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...