Delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is an uncommon primary lung tumor. It usually involves large airways and presents clinically and radiologically with nonspecific features. Because of nonspecific presentation diagnosis is frequently delayed. We report the case of a 29-year-old male patient wherein a cl...

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Autores principales: Jain, Akanksha, Madan, Neha Kawatra, Arava, Sudheer, Pandey, Durgatosh, Madan, Karan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27186000
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.180905
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author Jain, Akanksha
Madan, Neha Kawatra
Arava, Sudheer
Pandey, Durgatosh
Madan, Karan
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Madan, Neha Kawatra
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description Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is an uncommon primary lung tumor. It usually involves large airways and presents clinically and radiologically with nonspecific features. Because of nonspecific presentation diagnosis is frequently delayed. We report the case of a 29-year-old male patient wherein a clinico-radiological consideration of tuberculosis (TB) led to a prolonged treatment with anti-TB medications without response. Flexible bronchoscopic biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of MEC following that the patient underwent curative surgical resection.
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spelling pubmed-48575722016-05-16 Delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male Jain, Akanksha Madan, Neha Kawatra Arava, Sudheer Pandey, Durgatosh Madan, Karan Lung India Case Report Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is an uncommon primary lung tumor. It usually involves large airways and presents clinically and radiologically with nonspecific features. Because of nonspecific presentation diagnosis is frequently delayed. We report the case of a 29-year-old male patient wherein a clinico-radiological consideration of tuberculosis (TB) led to a prolonged treatment with anti-TB medications without response. Flexible bronchoscopic biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of MEC following that the patient underwent curative surgical resection. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4857572/ /pubmed/27186000 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.180905 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Pandey, Durgatosh
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Delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male
title Delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male
title_full Delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male
title_fullStr Delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male
title_full_unstemmed Delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male
title_short Delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male
title_sort delayed diagnosis of endobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 29-year-old male
topic Case Report
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