Two cases of asymptomatic granular cell tumor of the bronchus detected incidentally by bronchoscopy
| Autor: | June Namgung, Tae Young Choi, Sung Hong Lee, Hyuk Pyo Lee, Hye Kyung Lee, Ho Kee Yum, Young Sook Na, Joo In Kim, Soo Jeon Choi, Hye Jae Cho, Byung Oh Jeoung, Eun Hee Kang |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Granular cell tumor Bronchus Pathology medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Soft tissue Aspiration pneumonia medicine.disease Asymptomatic Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Bronchoscopy Tongue medicine Radiology Respiratory system medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. 46:122 |
| ISSN: | 0378-0066 |
| DOI: | 10.4046/trd.1999.46.1.122 |
| Popis: | Granular cell tumor(formerly named to be granular cell myoblastoma) was first described by Abrikossoff in 1926 and is a rare tumor thought to be of Schwann cell origin. It can occur at any soft tissue of the body, but most cases are found at the tongue, skin, breast and GI tract Only 6% of them occur in respiratory system. We report two cases of asymptomatic granular cell tumor of the bronchus that were detected incidentally by bronchoscopy. One patient had aspiration pneumonia, the other had immotile cilia syndrome. The former patient was simply observed and bronchoscopic extirpation of the tumor was done in the latter patient. |
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