Abstract
We report a 16 year old girl who presented with recurrent pneumonias and abnormal chest imaging who we diagnosed with an atypical bronchial carcinoid obstructing the left main-stem bronchus. This case highlights the lack of data on adjuvant therapy after surgical resection and the absence of surveillance guidelines for children with pulmonary carcinoid.
Highlights
Bronchial carcinoid tumors are malignant neoplasms comprised of neuroendocrine cells [1,2]
We report a 16 year-old girl with atypical bronchogenic carcinoid treated with sleeve lobectomy
The pathological diagnosis was an atypical carcinoid with invasion of the bronchial wall into the peribronchial soft tissue and involvement of two ipsilateral peribronchial lymph nodes
Summary
Bronchial carcinoid tumors are malignant neoplasms comprised of neuroendocrine cells [1,2]. Patients with atypical carcinoids are typically a decade older and have worse 5 and 10-year survival rates (44-88% and 18-64%, respectively) [3]. We report a 16 year-old girl with atypical bronchogenic carcinoid treated with sleeve lobectomy. The pathological diagnosis was an atypical carcinoid with invasion of the bronchial wall into the peribronchial soft tissue and involvement of two ipsilateral peribronchial lymph nodes.
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