Spontaneous Resolution of an Endobronchial Mass

Abstract

Bronchial adenomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors accounting for 5% of primary pulmonary neoplasms. We report the case of a 21-year-old woman with recurrent episodes of lower respiratory tract infections requiring hospitalization since 2008. She was diagnosed with right middle lobe and lower lobe atelectasis and underwent fiber-optic bronchoscopy for further evaluation, which revealed a red, smooth, pedunculated mobile mass in the right bronchus intermedius. The post-bronchoscopy patient had hemoptysis. A review bronchoscopy performed for surgical management surprisingly revealed the disappearance of mass. The patient probably expectorated the mass during the episode of hemoptysis. Such incidence has been reported only once in the literature.

Keywords

• adenoma
• bronchoscopy
• fiber-optic
• neoplasms