Abstract
This patient is a 39-year-old woman. She had complaints of a slight fever and cough, and an abnormal shadow was detected on chest X-ray by her home doctor. So, she was admitted to our hospital.
CT scan and MRI revealed tumor shadow about 2 cm in diameter involving the right intermediate bronchial trunk and atelectasis of middle and lower lobes due to this tumor, but it was difficult to diagnose by bronchoscopic finding and biopsy.
Right middle and lower lobectomy was performed for a diagnosis of intrabronchial tumor. Macroscopic finding revealed a smooth, yellow-white colored tumor originating from the right middle lobe bronchus, and this tumor was protruded into the right intermediate bronchial trunk. The tumor was diagnosed pathologically as bronchial mucous gland adenoma, and this patient is alive one and a half years after surgery without any evidence of recurrence.
