Fatimi Saulat Hasnain, Khawaja Ali, Ali Khawaja Ranish Deedar, Hoda Mehar, Bhimani Salima Ahmed
Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University, Karachi.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2013 Jul;23(7):519-21.
Inflammatory endobronchial polyps are rarely encountered. We report a case of a 14 years old girl with a benign granulomatous polyp originating in the bronchus. Computed tomography scan showed an intraluminal soft tissue opacity while fiberoptic bronchoscopy revealed a large soft tissue mass completely occluding the left lower lobe. Rigid bronchoscopy under general anaesthesia identified a fleshy mass in the left main stem bronchus which was excised via bronchoscopy. The histopathology showed benign polyp with non-specific inflammation. The patient's symptoms improved subsequently and no recurrence was reported till two years of follow-up.