title: A case of endobronchial lipoma mimicking bronchial asthma.
abstract: Endobronchial lipoma is a rare neoplasm of the tracheobronchial tree and it may cause irreversible pulmonary damage due to recurrent pneumonia. Rarely, it may mimic bronchial asthma. We present a 53-year-old woman with an endobronchial lipoma, which had been treated as a bronchial asthma for four years. She also had developed recurrent pneumonia three times.
authors.affiliation: Samsun Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Hospital, Samsun, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sevket
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozkaya
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: Serhat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Findik
keywords: asthma; bronchoscopy; endobronchial lipoma; radiology