Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.  2007 Feb;40(2):151-154.

Pulmonary Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor with Bronchus Invasion: One case report

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cheonan Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Korea. csdoctor@schch.co.kr
  • 2Department of Pathology, Cheonan Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Korea.

Abstract

A 34-year old man was admitted our hospital because he wished to evaluate the pulmonary mass that was incidentally detected on healthy examination. Bronchoscopy and chest CT showed endobronchial and peribronchial mass of the left lower lobe of the lung. Open thoracotomy and left lower lobectomy of the lung was done. Pulmonary mass was confirmed as a pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor with bronchus invasion pathologically. Pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor with bronchus invasion is a vary rare. Herein we report a case of pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor with bronchus invasion.

Keyword

Bronchus; Lung surgery; Myoblsts; Pulmonary nodule

MeSH Terms

Adult
Bronchi*
Bronchoscopy
Humans
Lung
Myofibroblasts*
Thoracotomy
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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