Bronchial Adenoma

Bronchial adenoma.

Bronchial adenoma in childhood.

Case Report D.F., a 6-year-old girl, came to the Children's Hospital, Birmingham, in February, 1953, because of seven attacks of 'left basal pneumonia', the last being in July, 1952. The first illness had been treated in Malaya in 1951 and had responded to a course of streptomycin and sulphonamides. She was a well built, somewhat pallid child with no symptoms. Finger clubbing was absent; the tr...

Occurrence of Bronchial Adenoma and Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Only a few years ago bronchial adenoma was considered a rare tumor. Recently, however, an increasing number of reports have been published of this neoplasm. On the basis of their experience Lindskog and Liebow3 hold that bronchial adenomata comprise 4 to 5 per cent of all pulmonary neoplasms. An adenoma originating in the bronchial wall gives rise to symptoms of obstruction, infection and haemo...

Bronchial mucous gland adenoma: A rare tumor.

Bronchial mucous gland adenoma (BMGA) is a very uncommon, benign entity, defined as a proliferation of seromucous glands in the bronchial lamina propria, without cellular atypia, usually arising in the proximal airways, with some rare reports of peripheral and endobronchial localization. BMGA does not have gender predilection, with mean age of 52 years, but rarely can present in children. A 50 ...

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...