A case of endobronchial lipoma mimicking bronchial asthma

Case report

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Authors: Sevket Ozkaya, Hasan Demir, Serhat Findik

Published Date May 2009 Volume 2009:2 Pages 15 - 17

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S5541

Sevket Ozkaya¹, Hasan Demir¹, Serhat Findik²

¹Samsun Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Hospital, Samsun, Turkey; ²Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Kurupelit, Samsun, Turkey

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: endobronchial lipoma, asthma, radiology, bronchoscopy

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