A 14-year-old boy with endobronchial carcinoid tumor presenting with asthma

Yunmo Gu; Youngjin Hwang; Sung Won Kim

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Gu, Hwang, and Kim: A 14-year-old boy with endobronchial carcinoid tumor presenting with asthma

Case Report

Kosin Medical Journal 2017;32(2):221-226.

Published online: 19 January 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7180/kmj.2017.32.2.221

A 14-year-old boy with endobronchial carcinoid tumor presenting with asthma

Yunmo Gu, Youngjin Hwang, Sung Won Kim

Department of Pediatrics, Busan St. Mary’s Hospital, Busan, Korea

Corresponding Author: Sung Won Kim. Department of Pediatrics, Busan St. Mary’s Hospital, 25-14, Yongho-ro 232 beon-gil, Nam-gu, Busan 48575, Korea Tel: +82-51-933-7981, Fax: +82-51-936-7531, E-mail: sbdph1@daum.net

Received 18 August 201528 August 2015 Accepted 26 October 2015

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Introduction

Bronchial carcinoid tumors seldom occur in children, sometimes mistaken for a minor disease and diagnosed slowly. Materials and Methods: We report on a patient who diagnose tumors slowly because confused with asthma.

Results

This case describes a 14-year-old boy, presenting with asthma-like symptoms throughout 3 years. He was treated as asthma but wax and wane. Chest x-ray showed an hyperlucent left lung, so we rechecked high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) for unilateral hyperinflation diseases diagnosis. It was found 1×1㎝ nodule in left main bronchus. We did bronchoscopy and discovered a round mass in the left bronchus, 2∼3㎝ away from carina. In the biopsy, it was bronchial carcinoid tumor, so we resected tumor.

Discussion

Because symptoms of bronchial carcinoid tumors are various, it can often be misdiagnosed firstly. It is confused with asthma, pneumonia and foreign body. An additional examination were necessary when respiratory symptoms persist.

Keywords: Bronchial, Carcinoid, Tumor

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