Chest
Special ReportsEndobronchial Polyp
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Clinical Data
A 76-year-old woman was first seen in the emergency room of this hospital with the chief complaints of right shoulder pain, wheezing and increasing dyspnea. These symptoms had been present in a milder form for approximately eight months, but in the last two to three months had increased in severity in conjunction with weight loss and a feeling of fatigue and lassitude. She denied asthma, fever, chills, cough, hemoptysis and smoking habit. Her history was essentially not remarkable and she had
DISCUSSION
This case, together with a few case reports by others,4, 5, 6, 7 forms a distinct group of endobronchial polyps characterized by rapidly progressing signs and symptoms of bronchial obstruction in the absence of preceding manifestations of tracheobronchial or pulmonary disease. The term polyp, per se, has no histopathologic connotation; it just means a protruding growth arising from a mucous membrane. As such, the term well applies to the endobronchial mass of our case. All attempts to classify
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Endobronchial fibroepithelial polyp
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