title: Bronchial foreign bodies simulating endobronchial malignancy.
abstract: Reported are two cases of benign endobronchial lesions with granulomatous reactions that led to complete airway obstruction. Combined with a long history of cigarette smoking and the appearance of a hilar mass, these lesions appeared clinically to be bronchogenic carcinomas. Both cases went to thoracotomy, but in each case the requirement that malignant tissue be identified, allowed recognition of a foreign body in one case, and broncholith in the second, avoiding pneumonectomy in both cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Louisville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, KY, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Charnvitayapong
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Hymes
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Fletcher
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001980:Bronchi; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002283:Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed