A Case of Tracheal Hamartoma Resected with Loop Electrocautery
The authors report on the case of a 67-year-old man with longstanding breathlessness, which was eventually attributed to a fixed mass in the upper third of the trachea causing upper airway obstruction. The lesion was amenable to loop electrocautery resection via flexible bronchoscopy that led to pro...
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| description | The authors report on the case of a 67-year-old man with longstanding breathlessness, which was eventually attributed to a fixed mass in the upper third of the trachea causing upper airway obstruction. The lesion was amenable to loop electrocautery resection via flexible bronchoscopy that led to prompt resolution of patient symptoms. Biopsy was consistent with tracheal hamartoma, an exceedingly rare benign tracheal tumor. All the cases of tracheal hamartomas in the literature to date, the application of electrocautery and other methods of interventional bronchoscopy for resection of selected tracheal tumors are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d977e58cded7446890379f02ef761a962025-02-03T05:45:42ZengWileyCase Reports in Pulmonology2090-68462090-68542013-01-01201310.1155/2013/568590568590A Case of Tracheal Hamartoma Resected with Loop ElectrocauteryMarios Panagiotou0Alexandros Kalkanis1Napoleon Karagiannidis2Vlasis Polychronopoulos33rd Department of Pulmonology, Sismanoglio General Hospital, 15126 Athens, Greece3rd Department of Pulmonology, Sismanoglio General Hospital, 15126 Athens, Greece3rd Department of Pulmonology, Sismanoglio General Hospital, 15126 Athens, GreeceYgeia Hospital, 15123 Athens, GreeceThe authors report on the case of a 67-year-old man with longstanding breathlessness, which was eventually attributed to a fixed mass in the upper third of the trachea causing upper airway obstruction. The lesion was amenable to loop electrocautery resection via flexible bronchoscopy that led to prompt resolution of patient symptoms. Biopsy was consistent with tracheal hamartoma, an exceedingly rare benign tracheal tumor. All the cases of tracheal hamartomas in the literature to date, the application of electrocautery and other methods of interventional bronchoscopy for resection of selected tracheal tumors are discussed.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/568590 |
| spellingShingle | Marios Panagiotou Alexandros Kalkanis Napoleon Karagiannidis Vlasis Polychronopoulos A Case of Tracheal Hamartoma Resected with Loop Electrocautery Case Reports in Pulmonology |
| title | A Case of Tracheal Hamartoma Resected with Loop Electrocautery |
| title_full | A Case of Tracheal Hamartoma Resected with Loop Electrocautery |
| title_fullStr | A Case of Tracheal Hamartoma Resected with Loop Electrocautery |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Case of Tracheal Hamartoma Resected with Loop Electrocautery |
| title_short | A Case of Tracheal Hamartoma Resected with Loop Electrocautery |
| title_sort | case of tracheal hamartoma resected with loop electrocautery |
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