PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Funda Oztuna
AU  - Mehtap Pehlivanlar
AU  - Yasin Abul
AU  - Celal Tekinbas
AU  - Yavuz Ozoran
AU  - Tevfik Ozlü
TI  - Adult Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Trachea: Case Report and Literature Review
AID  - 10.4187/respcare.02198
DP  - 2012 Dec 11
TA  - Respiratory Care
PG  - respcare.02198
4099  - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/2012/12/11/respcare.02198.short
4100  - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/2012/12/11/respcare.02198.full
AB  - Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the trachea is a rare benign tumor of the adult. It is mostly seen before the age of 16. We describe a 20-year-old female patient who presented with stridor. She had a fixed obstruction on spirometry and a thorax computed tomography and bronchoscopy confirmed the presence of tracheal thickening and stenosis below the vocal cords and bronchial wall thickening at the level of carina. Bronchoscopic biopsies confirmed the lesion to be an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. After mechanical dilatation and resection by rigid bronchoscopy and corticosteroid therapy, the clinical status of the patient was relieved.