RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Adult Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Trachea: Case Report and Literature Review
JF Respiratory Care
FD American Association for Respiratory Care
SP respcare.02198
DO 10.4187/respcare.02198
A1 Funda Oztuna
A1 Mehtap Pehlivanlar
A1 Yasin Abul
A1 Celal Tekinbas
A1 Yavuz Ozoran
A1 Tevfik Ozlü
YR 2012
UL http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/2012/12/11/respcare.02198.abstract
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.