Clinical characteristics and efficacy of bronchoscopic intervention for tracheobronchial leiomyoma

Abstract

Patients with a tracheobronchial leiomyoma usually present with non-specific respiratory symptoms and an endobronchial mass without parenchymal lesions. Bronchoscopic intervention is a safe and effective technique for the treatment of patients with a tracheobronchial leiomyoma.

Solitary Extramedullary Plasmacytoma Presenting as an Endobronchial Mass

“…However, when the SEP is a carinal tumor like our patient exhibited, carinal resectional surgery is a poor option as the procedure has high mortality and morbidity rates of up to 13% and 39%, respectively, in a large case series (11). Recently, bronchoscopic intervention has been shown to be a safe and effective tool for the treatment of tracheobronchial tumors (12,13). However, bronchoscopic intervention for a curative intent should be carefully applied to wide-based tumors due to the difficulty in completely removing them.…”

Correlation of the Imaging Findings with Bronchoscopic Findings for the Detection of Endobronchial Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…After reviewing the titles and abstracts, 18 articles met the criteria and were candidates for full text analysis [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. The articles that were excluded in this first phase of selection were no relevant in the scope of this review.…”

Obstructive bronchial hamartoma

“…2 In many instances, symptomatic endobronchial hamartomas and other benign lesions of the bronchi are amenable to endoscopic resection using either a flexible or rigid bronchoscope, the latter being particularly useful for piecemeal extraction of tumour fragments following laser fulguration. 3 Our case report illustrates that the cause of bronchial obstruction is not always malignant and that endoscopic techniques may spare patients the morbidity of thoracotomy and airway resection. 1,2 The prognosis in completely resected lesions is excellent.…”