title: Bronchial carcinoid in college freshman with persistent focal wheeze.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To bring attention to a rare diagnosis in the pediatric population that is in the differential diagnosis for not well-controlled asthma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case presentation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pulmonary carcinoid tumors are rare and usually present late in adolescence. Most of these tumors are located in the proximal airways and symptoms may be similar to those of asthma including cough, wheeze, chest pain, or recurrent pneumonia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Bronchial carcinoid should be in the differential diagnosis for adolescents with difficult to control asthma, who have symptoms including chronic cough and focal wheeze. Referral to a pulmonary specialist should be considered to help work up the differential diagnoses.
authors.affiliation: Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Rena
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Holzer
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology*
keywords: Asthma; cancer; case study; college students; pulmonary