The presentation of a Nocardia infection is quite variable. We report a case of nocardiosis presenting as endobronchial obstruction with postobstructive pneumonia and atelectasis, in a patient with a low index of suspicion for bronchogenic carcinoma. Our report emphasizes the importance of considering the diagnosis of endobronchial nocardiosis in patients with endobronchial obstruction and a lo...

Benign neoplasm of the endobronchial tree is quite rare, while endobronchial lipoma is extremely rare. The irreversible pulmonary damage is due to progressive bronchial obstruction; even so, pleural empyema is exceptionally encountered in a case of endobronchial lipoma. We report a case of a 47-year-old man who had left lung pneumonia with hemoptysis. The chest computed tomography showed cystic...

A fibroepithelial polyp of the bronchus is a rare, benign, and endobronchial tumor, histologically consisting of fibrovascular stroma covered by normal respiratory epithelium. We report a case of a fibroepithelial polyp arising from the left main bronchus. On CT, a characteristic lobulating contour of the endobronchial nodule was well visualized, which histopathologically represented a typical ...

Because of recent advances, more patients may potentially benefit from a variety of interventional bronchoscopic techniques. Nd:YAG laser phototherapy is the most widely used modality and is the treatment of choice for patients with endobronchial malignancies who have large-central airway obstruction. Cryotherapy may be superior to Nd:YAG phototherapy for more distal airways lesions because of ...

BACKGROUND Lung separation is essential for an emergency thoracic surgery for massive hemoptysis. When using a double lumen tube (DLT), a commonly adopted lung separation device during thoracic surgery, a water-tight seal of endobronchial cuff is crucial to prevent lung-to-lung aspiration of blood. In this study, we investigated the fluid sealing characteristics of the endobronchial cuff of a D...

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 63-year-old man presented with a 12 h history of severe cough and a fear of choking. He had a known background of locally advanced primary adenocarcinoma of the lung obstructing the right upper bronchus. Three months previously he had coughed up white tissue (confirmed as carcinoma by histology). One month previously he received a single fraction of radiotherapy. His respiratory rate was 20 b...

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.