Li Min, Zhu Wen-Ye, Wu Rong-Rong, Wang Le, Mo Meng-Ting, Liu Shi-Nan, Zhu Dong-Yi, Luo Zhuang
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650032, Yunnan Province, China.
Department of Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650032, Yunnan Province, China.
World J Clin Cases. 2023 Oct 6;11(28):6792-6796. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i28.6792.
Pulmonary artery (PA) aneurysms are usually diagnosed radiographically and present as small or large lesions resembling inflammation or a neoplasm on chest radiography. It has rarely been reported as an endobronchial mass.
We report the case of a 64-year-old man who presented with recurrent hemoptysis. Bronchoscopy revealed a tumorous protrusion blocking the right middle lobe bronchus, which was confirmed to be a PA aneurysm using endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy and computed tomography angiography.
Although endobronchial PA aneurysms are rare, bronchoscopists need to add this lesion to the list of endobronchial masses for which a biopsy is to be assiduously avoided.
