Sir, In contrast to the absence of cough at the time of presentation with complications of endobronchial tuberculosis, 1 a chronic 'barking' or 'hacking' cough may be a notable feature of endobronchial tuberculosis, 2–4 present in 61.1% of 121 patients in one study. 2 In that study, 24.8% of the patients had radiographic evidence of loss of lung volume, 58.7% had parenchymal infiltration and 8....

Pulmonary cryptococcosis presenting as an endobronchial tumour-like growth has rarely been described. We report the case of a male patient with normal immune function who presented with a right upper lobe mass lesion. Bronchoscopy revealed a tumour-like growth that completely occluded the anterior segment of the right upper lobe bronchus. Bronchial biopsy and computed tomography-guided lung bio...

Endobronchial lipoma is a rare neoplasm of the tracheobronchial tree and it may cause irreversible pulmonary damage due to recurrent pneumonia. Rarely, it may mimic bronchial asthma. We present a 53-year-old woman with an endobronchial lipoma, which had been treated as a bronchial asthma for four years. She also had developed recurrent pneumonia three times.

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Pulmonary tuberculosis is one of the most important health problems in the world (1, 2). Human immunode-ficiency virus (HIV) infection, immigration, multidrug resistance, delay and failure in prevention, diagnosis and treatment cause a high incidence of pulmonary tubrcu-lo...

Melioidosis has protean manifestations and often mimics other disease processes. We present a case of a gentleman presenting with chronic cough whose initial radiographic findings of a cavitatory lung lesion and mediastinal lymphadenopathy were suggestive of tuberculosis. This case highlights the important role that bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound can play in the diagnosis of melioido...