Abstract
Primary endobronchial chondrosarcoma is extremely rare and hardly reported while reported chondrosarcomas of primary lung origin are rare with most literature coming from a series of case reports and small case series. These tumours can present as centrally located masses and therefore, require extensive workup to exclude alternative aetiology and to confirm diagnosis. Literature review revealed only four reports of primary endobronchial and 29 primary pulmonary chondrosarcoma cases, excluding the current report. We present a rare case of biopsy-proven non-metastatic primary endobronchial conventional chondrosarcoma of the right upper lobar bronchus extending into the right main bronchus managed with technically challenging sleeve bilobectomy of right upper and middle lobes and a viable anastomosis of lower lobe bronchus with the right main bronchus stump and thus, prevented a pneumonectomy. Final histopathology confirmed the diagnosis. Thus, these tumours are difficult to diagnose and challenging to manage and need more data in future to establish protocols.
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