• Online Features  This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Surgery  • Surgical Interventions  • Thoracic Surgery  • Diagnosis  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Parth B. Amin, MD; Frank Baciewicz, MD

Arch Surg. 2009;144(11):1081-1083.

ABSTRACT
Benign endobronchial polyps are rare findings that present a diagnostic dilemma not only for the clinician but also for the pathologist. We describe a man with repeated visits to emergency departments for coughing spells who ultimately underwent bronchoscopy and biopsy. The biopsy specimen was initially diagnosed as a leiomyoma, but the final pathologic diagnosis of the gross specimen was a benign fibroepithelial polyp. We present the clinical history of this patient along with a brief review of the published literature regarding this rare clinical entity.

Author Affiliations: Department of Surgery, Wayne State University and Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan.

CiteULike    Connotea    Delicious    Digg    Facebook    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?