Endobronchial Carcinoid Tumor in a Girl with Initial Histologic Diagnosis of Leiomyoma

Endobronchial tumors represent the rarest cause of airway obstruction in pediatric population. Due to rarity of the condition, a high index of suspicion is required for early diagnosis. We report a patient in whom diagnostic bronchoscopic biopsy was reported as leiomyoma while post resection histopa...

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Autores principales: Arshad, Muhammad, Shaikh, Mishraz, Haq, Mehmood-ul, Ali, Syed Waqas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623257
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author Arshad, Muhammad
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description Endobronchial tumors represent the rarest cause of airway obstruction in pediatric population. Due to rarity of the condition, a high index of suspicion is required for early diagnosis. We report a patient in whom diagnostic bronchoscopic biopsy was reported as leiomyoma while post resection histopathology showed an atypical carcinoid.
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spelling pubmed-46481442015-11-30 Endobronchial Carcinoid Tumor in a Girl with Initial Histologic Diagnosis of Leiomyoma Arshad, Muhammad Shaikh, Mishraz Haq, Mehmood-ul Ali, Syed Waqas APSP J Case Rep Case Report Endobronchial tumors represent the rarest cause of airway obstruction in pediatric population. Due to rarity of the condition, a high index of suspicion is required for early diagnosis. We report a patient in whom diagnostic bronchoscopic biopsy was reported as leiomyoma while post resection histopathology showed an atypical carcinoid. EL-MED-Pub 2015-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4648144/ /pubmed/26623257 Text en Copyright © 2015 AJCR http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Endobronchial Carcinoid Tumor in a Girl with Initial Histologic Diagnosis of Leiomyoma
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title_full Endobronchial Carcinoid Tumor in a Girl with Initial Histologic Diagnosis of Leiomyoma
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title_short Endobronchial Carcinoid Tumor in a Girl with Initial Histologic Diagnosis of Leiomyoma
title_sort endobronchial carcinoid tumor in a girl with initial histologic diagnosis of leiomyoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623257
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