Bronchial lipoma: a case report and review of literature

Background: Outline: Conclusions: Bronchial lipoma is a very rare kind of benign tumor, which is more common in the elderly or obese men. Because it tends to block the airway, and has no specific clinical manifestations, so it may be easily misdiagnosed as lung cancer, lung inflammation, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, and other chronic airway diseases. Chest thin-slice spiral computed tomography (CT) and CT value measuring of the mass are helpful to the diagnosis, the definite diagnosis needs tissue biopsy by high-frequency electric snare through bronchoscopy or lung lobectomy. The former general as the preferred solution, the latter has a larger surgical trauma. So when with recurrent obstructive pneumonia, severe bronchiectasis, extrabronchial growth, or because of technical reasons, bronchoscopy cannot be used, if we do this operation we should keep the normal lung tissue as much as possible. The (Argon plasma coagulation technique, APC) treating endobronchial lipoma through bronchoscope is reliable.