Successful complete tumor resection for pulmonary mucoepidermoid carcinoma by thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy with intraoperative bronchoscopy: A pediatric case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and importance

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma presents as an exophytic endobronchial mass that induces obstructive symptoms often followed by distal collapse atelectasis of the lung parenchyma.

Case presentation

A six-year-old girl had recurrent bacterial pneumonia and atelectasis of the right upper lobe. Computed tomography revealed a 30-mm mass in the anterior segment of the right upper lobe with an obstructed trachea and peripheral atelectasis. A minor salivary gland tumor was suspected, so thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy (RUL) was performed. Intraoperative bronchoscopy showed no protrusion of the tumor into the tracheal lumen. We confirmed that there was no injury to the middle lobe branch and no residual tumor via bronchoscopy before transection of the trache

SUBMITTER: Nishida N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10112141 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature