Tracheo-bronchial and Pulmonary Chondro-adenoma (Hamartoma)

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...

Anesthesia in tracheo-bronchial procedures.

Primary diffuse tracheo-bronchial amyloidosis.

A. V. A., a 62-year-old housewife, born in Faro (in the Portuguese southern province of Algarve), had had an episode of haemoptyses at the age of 27; she was admitted to hospital, where mitral stenosis was diagnosed. There were no other symptoms at the time. The haemoptysis recurred at 40 and 43, again without other complaints. At 56 she had a respiratory illness with dyspnoea, cough, purulent ...

Asthma-Like Tracheo-Bronchial Amyloidosis

Localized bronchial Amyloidosis is an uncommon disease of unknown origin. Clinical signs are not specific. Tracheobronchial symptoms are the most frequent. We report a case of a 31 year-old man complaining of asthma-like dyspnea. Bronchoscopy was performed because of ineffectiveness of antiasthmatic treatment, showed a submucosal infiltration with stenosis of both right and left upper bronchi a...

Chondro-osseous respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma of the nasal cavity

Chondro-osseous respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma is a rare hamartomatous lesion of the nasal cavity, with only five cases reported in the literature to date. We report the case of a 3-year-old boy who presented with nasal obstruction and a mass in the left nasal cavity. The mass was completely resected on endoscopy. On microscopy, hamartomatous proliferation of respiratory-type glan...