[A case of intrapulmonary teratoma presenting with expectoration of white hair and cheese-like material].
A 41-year-old man presented with expectoration of white hair and cheese-like material. The chest radiograph showed a round shadow adjacent to the right hilum. Bronchofiberscopy revealed strands of white hair and an obstruction consisting of sebaceous material in the right B3b bronchus. Right upper lobectomy was performed. Histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of intrapulmonary mature teratoma. This characteristic clinical presentation and the bronchofiberscopic findings may have been specific for the diagnosis of teratoma in this case.
Okamura
Mayumi
M
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Fujisawa City Hospital, 2-6-1 Fujisawa, Fujisawa-city, Kanagawa 251-8550, Japan.
Nishikawa
Masanori
M
Kenmotsu
Hirotsugu
H
Kakemizu
Nobumasa
N
Takagi
Shigeto
S
Suzuki
Yuzo
Y
Sakamoto
Hiroshi
H
Kido
Yasuhiro
Y
Hasegawa
Hideyuki
H
Ishigatsubo
Yoshiaki
Y
D000328:Adult; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D013183:Sputum; D013724:Teratoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery