Bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma, recurrent asthmatic symptoms, and pneumonia presenting in pregnancy

Abstract

Abstract We report the case of a 37‐year‐old pregnant Japanese woman (34th week of gestation) with a left main bronchus mucoepidermoid carcinoma. She had left lower lung pneumonia episodes for eight weeks that had been associated with bronchial asthma. Bronchoscopy revealed a membranous endobronchial tumour obstructing most of the left main bronchus. We delivered the baby without any problems by caesarean section, followed by tumour cauterization using a rigid bronchoscope under general anaesthesia. After that, we performed a sleeve resection of the main left bronchus. At one‐year follow‐up, the patient was disease‐free and her baby was growing well.

Keywords

• Bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma
• interventional bronchoscopy
• obstructive pneumonia
• pregnant woman
• recurrent asthmatic symptoms