Successful treatment of endobronchial carcinoid using argon plasma coagulation
Autor: | Hamidreza Jabbardarjani, Felix J.F. Herth, Mohammad Reza Masjedi |
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Rok vydání: | 2012 |
Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Surgical resection endocrine system medicine.medical_specialty Lung Standard of care business.industry Carcinoid tumors Argon plasma coagulation medicine.disease digestive system diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Cardiothoracic surgery medicine Radiology Complication business neoplasms |
Zdroj: | Journal of bronchologyinterventional pulmonology. 16(3) |
ISSN: | 1944-6586 |
Popis: | Bronchial carcinoids are rare, well-differentiated, neuroendocrine malignant tumors and account for 5% of all lung neoplasms. The standard of care for the carcinoid tumors has been surgical resection. Various interventional bronchoscopic techniques are available for the treatment of intraluminal carcinoid. One of these new techniques with less complication is argon plasma coagulation. In this study, we report a case of huge endobronchial carcinoid tumor referred to us from the thoracic surgery ward, which was not surgically resectable. The tumor was treated successfully with argon plasma coagulation. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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