A case of endobronchial lipoma mimicking bronchial asthma

Endobronchial lipoma is a rare neoplasm of the tracheobronchial tree and it may cause irreversible pulmonary damage due to recurrent pneumonia. Rarely, it may mimic bronchial asthma. We present a 53-year-old woman with an endobronchial lipoma, which had been treated as a bronchial asthma for four ye...

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Autores principales: Ozkaya, Sevket, Demir, Hasan, Findik, Serhat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23754876
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description Endobronchial lipoma is a rare neoplasm of the tracheobronchial tree and it may cause irreversible pulmonary damage due to recurrent pneumonia. Rarely, it may mimic bronchial asthma. We present a 53-year-old woman with an endobronchial lipoma, which had been treated as a bronchial asthma for four years. She also had developed recurrent pneumonia three times.
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spelling pubmed-36582082013-06-10 A case of endobronchial lipoma mimicking bronchial asthma Ozkaya, Sevket Demir, Hasan Findik, Serhat Int Med Case Rep J Case Report Endobronchial lipoma is a rare neoplasm of the tracheobronchial tree and it may cause irreversible pulmonary damage due to recurrent pneumonia. Rarely, it may mimic bronchial asthma. We present a 53-year-old woman with an endobronchial lipoma, which had been treated as a bronchial asthma for four years. She also had developed recurrent pneumonia three times. Dove Medical Press 2009-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3658208/ /pubmed/23754876 Text en © 2009 Ozkaya et al, publisher and licensee Dove Medical Press Ltd. This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, provided the original work is properly cited.
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