Pseudotumor inflamatório endobrônquico: relato de caso

Abstract

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung is a rare form of benign neoplasia and is generally characterized by a solitary pulmonary nodule. The endobronchial presentation is uncommon. Conservative surgery remains the treatment of choice, and surgeons should always strive to achieve tumor-free margins due to the possibility of local recidivism. This article reports the case of a 36-year-old male patient with recurrent attacks of wheezing and cough. The patient underwent successful bronchoplasty for the resection of an endobronchial inflammatory pseudotumor.

Indolent lung opacity: Ten years follow-up of pulmonary inflammatory pseudo-tumor

“…Patients who witness disease recurrence or those who do not fit for surgery may rarely benefit from other approaches including corticosteroids, chemo, and/or radiotherapy. Those modalities can also be used as adjuncts to suspected incomplete resection[ 29 ]. Radiotherapy has little to offer for these slow-growing lesions; hence radiation may cause more damage than cure.…”