Tracheal and endobronchial lesions
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Primary tracheal and endobronchial lesions are generally rare and can be either malignant or benign. The majority of these lesions are malignant.
Pathology
Malignant
- primary malignant endobronchial lesions
- bronchogenic adenocarcinoma
- squamous cell carcinoma: commonest malignant lesion in tracheal region
- small cell carcinoma
- bronchial carcinoid
- mucoepidermoid carcinoma: tracheal mucoepidernoid carcinoma
- adenoid cystic carcinoma
- endobronchial metastases
Benign
- pulmonary hamartoma: most common benign neoplasm in lung 3
- pulmonary leiomyoma/tracheal leiomyoma
- endobronchial lipoma
- squamous cell papilloma: most common benign neoplasm in the trachea 3, occurs as part of laryngotracheal papillomatosis
- pulmonary pleomorphic adenoma
- granular cell tumours, e.g. Abrikossov tumour/myoblastoma 5
- haemangioma
- fibroma
- neurogenic tumours
- inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour
Non-neoplastic
See also
- +<li>haemangioma</li>
- +<li>fibroma</li>
- +<li>neurogenic tumours</li>
- +<li>inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour</li>
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- 7. Theriault M, Eddy K, Borgaonkar J, Babar J, Manos D. Diseases Involving the Central Bronchi: Multidetector CT for Detection, Characterization, and Differential Diagnosis. Radiographics. 2018;38(1):58-9. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.2018170097">doi:10.1148/rg.2018170097</a> - <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29320325">Pubmed</a>
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