The squamous cell carcinoma case that received long-term COPD treatment
Primary tracheal tumors are rare, and composed of variousbenign and malignant pathologies. They often cansimulate obstructive pulmonary diseases, such as asthmaand chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and patientswith malign tracheal tumors sometimes undergolong-term treatment for such diseases, w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dicle University Medical School
2013-03-01
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| Series: | Dicle Medical Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.diclemedj.org/upload/sayi/26/Dicle%20Med%20J-01188.pdf |
| Summary: | Primary tracheal tumors are rare, and composed of variousbenign and malignant pathologies. They often cansimulate obstructive pulmonary diseases, such as asthmaand chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and patientswith malign tracheal tumors sometimes undergolong-term treatment for such diseases, without any improvement.Therefore, these tumors should be includedin the differential diagnosis in patients presenting tracheobronchialtree obstruction. We present a squamous cellendotracheal carcinoma case that had received treatmentwith a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonarydisease for a long time. The recent increase in symptomshad been thought to be due to an exacerbation of the disorderbut the bronchoscopy performed after 3 months ofno improvement revealed an endotracheal mass lesion.Full recovery was obtained with bronchoscopic resectionof the tumor.Key words: Endotracheal tumor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, squamous cell carcinoma |
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| ISSN: | 1300-2945 1308-9889 |