Fibroepithelial pharyngeal polyps are rare. We herein report a case of a 56-year-old Asian woman who presented with voice hoarseness and throat discomfort for several years because of a giant pharyngeal polyp. We resected the polyp under general anesthesia. It originated in the left hypopharyngeal wall. Postoperative recovery was uneventful. Her sore throat was diminished within 1 week after th...

A patient is described who presented with left upper lobe collapse due to endobronchial metastatic prostate carcinoma. Treatment with the oral antiandrogen cyproterone acetate resulted in resolution of the occluding endobronchial carcinoma and lobar re-expansion.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between aspergillus recovery from the airways of lung transplant recipients and the development of endobronchial abnormalities. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Tertiary-care hospital. PATIENTS All patients who underwent lung transplantation between December 1991 and June 1999. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS The study cohort included 38 p...

A gastric inverted hyperplastic polyp is a rare type of gastric polyp and is characterized by downward growth of a variety of mucosal components into the submucosa. The polyp consists of columnar cells resembling foveolar epithelium and pyloric gland epithelium and can coexist with gastritis cystica profunda. Frequently, adenocarcinoma can coexist, but the relation is not clear. A 77-year-old m...

Polyphosphate (polyP) consists of tens to hundreds of phosphates, linked by ATP-like high-energy bonds. Although polyP is present in mammalian mitochondria, its physiological roles there are obscure. Here, we examine the involvement of polyP in mitochondrial energy metabolism and ion transport. We constructed a vector to express a mitochondrially targeted polyphosphatase, along with a GFP fluor...

polymers, ϳ 70 mer to 250 mer, are more effective in abrogating tissue factor pathway inhibitor–anticoagulant activity. In the case of fibrin clot stabilization, polyP polymers shorter than 100 mers had no influence on fibrin clot turbidity whereas Ն 250 mer support maximal turbidity increase. Interestingly, very short phosphates, particularly PPi, effectively block the polyP-mediated enhanceme...

An endobronchial hamartoma of the right lower lobe was discovered in a 60 yr old female patient. She had been diagnosed and treated for chronic intractable bronchial asthma for more than 10 yrs. The endobronchial hamartoma was successfully removed with a rigid bronchoscope.

Gynecologic leiomyosarcoma are uncommon malignancies. Although pulmonary metastases are frequent complications, endobronchial metastases are rare. We report 1 case of gynecologic leiomyosarcoma with endobronchial metastases, along with a review of the topic and bronchoscopic image of this uncommon phenomenon.

Two cases of endoluminar/endobronchial metastases (EEM) from a secondary extrathoracic tumour are reported. The patients, eight years after the curative treatment of colorectal adenocarcinoma, were examined exhibiting pulmonary symptoms with radiological findings in the chest and endobronchial lesions as an initial presentation. The use of fiberoptic bronchoscopy of endoluminar/endobronchial le...

Extramedullary plasmacytomas are rare tumors. In majority of cases tumors arise in the head and neck region and endobronchial localization is extremely rare. The treatment is usually resection alone or combination of surgery with radiotherapy. Herein we present a case of solitary endobronchial plasmacytoma which was resected with bronchoscopic electrocautery, because of extremely rare occurrenc...