A Giant Endobronchial Inflammatory Polyp İbrahim Dinçer, MD, Adalet Demir, MD, Hasan Akın, MD, Huseyin Melek, MD, Sedat Altın, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 80, Issue 6, Pages 2353-2356 (December 2005) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.07.038 Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Thorax computed tomograph (CT). (A) Computed axial tomographic cross-sections indicating an endobronchial mass nearly obliterating the right main bronchus and a loss of volume in the right lung. (B) Virtual bronchoscopy (coronal) indicating a mass obliterating the right main bronchus that was located from the trachea to the carina with distal atelectasis and changes caused by atelectasis. (C) Sagittal reformatted multislice CT image indicating cystic bronchiectasis in the right lower lobe with similar but less pronounced indications in the right middle lobe. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005 80, 2353-2356DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.07.038) Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Polyp positioned in the medial subsegment of the middle lobe with a handle indicating a yellowish-white smooth bright surface. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005 80, 2353-2356DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.07.038) Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Polyp lined with respiratory epithelium that displays a lipofibrotamous stroma with focal calcification and mononuclear inflammatory cells (magnification = 10 × 10). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005 80, 2353-2356DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.07.038) Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions