1985 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 71-76
Two cases of bronchial artery lesions detected by bronchofiberscopy are reported. The first case was an asymptomatic 68 year-old man with large tumor in the right lower lung field. A protrusion in the membranous portion of trachea was also recognized by bronchofiberscopy. After right lower lobectomy the protrustion was revealed to be a bronchial artery aneurysm by bronchial arteriogram. After bronchial artery embolization the protrusion disappeared. The second case was a symptomatic 68 year-old man with a right hilar mass on chest X-ray films, in whom a polypoid tumor in the left upper lobe bronchus was shown by bronchofiberscopy. Biopsy of the polypoid tumor caused massive hemoptysis. The lesion was revealed to be rasemose hemangioma of bronchial artery by histological findings and bronchial arteriogram. Bronchial artery embolization resulted in disappearance of hemoptysis.
