Spontaneous resolution of an intratracheal mass: report of one case.
A 14 year-old boy was investigated for a slowly resolving right upper lobe consolidation persisting for 3 months after a pneumonic episode. A flexible bronchoscopy showed a polypoid mass in the carina with extension to the right proximal bronchus. The bronchial washings study for fungus, acid-fast bacilli and polymerase chain reaction for mycobacterium were negative. A reported bronchoscopic examination 8 months later revealed no tracheal mass or subsequent stenosis. A tracheal mass in an asymptomatic and non-progressive child may be managed alternatively by repeated bronchoscopic examinations at intervals instead of immediate bronchoscopic excision or thoracotomy.
Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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KS
Wong
Y C
YC
Huang
T Y
TY
Lin
D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging