Bronchoscopic management of a primary endobronchial salivary epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma: A case report.

ABSTRACT: Here, we discussed a 55 y/o African man who recently immigrated from Nigeria to the United States and who presented to Parkland Memorial Hospital with a productive, intermittent cough of one year duration. The cough was associated with shortness of breath and chest pain. Cough was not associated with voice hoarseness, hemoptysis, melanoptysis, and wheezing. He had a computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest that showed a 1.9 cm mass in the right main stem bronchus with ipsilateral right lower lobe consolidation and bronchiectasis. The patient was seen by pulmonology who recommended bronchoscopy for diagnosis and possible intervention. Bronchoscopy showed a 90% obstructing mass in the proximal right mainstem bronchus and bronchus intermedius. The mass was large and endobronchial, circumfer

SUBMITTER: Patterson DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7232110 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature