Mucous gland adenoma of the bronchus: a case report

Pınar Yaran,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.077

Pınar Yaran¹, Gökhan Gedikoğlu², Rıza Doğan³

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Private Akay Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
²Deparments of Pathology, Medicine Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
³Deparments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Medicine Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.077

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Mucous gland adenoma is an extremely rare, benign, predominantly exophytic tumor of the tracheobronchial seromucinous glands and ducts. In this article, we report a case of mucous gland adenoma arising from the left upper lobe bronchus, which was initially misdiagnosed as pneumonia in the light of literature review.

Keywords : Benign; bronchial adenoma; mucous gland adenoma

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