Abstract
Primary malignant tumors of the trachea are rare; and they follow up such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease incorrect diagnoses. Tracheal tumors are rare and the incidence less than 0,01% and the majority of squamous cell carcinoma. Very few cases of primary lymphoma of the trachea have been reported so far. 72 years old male patient admitted to our clinic with complaints of shortness of breath, bronchoscopy showed a mass obstructing the tracheal lumen of the al)most complete.
Diode laser and coring was performed for emergency desobstruction.
There was no another focus of the patient'ssystemic screening whose pathological result is B-cell lymphoma. Reported due to a rare tracheal tumor.
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A case of primary tracheal B cell lymphoma leading to obstruction of central airway
