Necrotizing Bronchial Aspergillosis: A case report.
- Author:
In Ho YI
1
;
Dae Hyun KIM
;
Soo Cheol KIM
;
Bum Shik KIM
;
Kyu Seok CHO
;
Joo Chul PARK
;
Youn Wha KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. jcpark@khmc.or.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Aspergillosis, lung;
Sleeve resection;
Lung infection;
Lobectomy
- MeSH:
Aged;
Aspergillosis*;
Aspergillus;
Biopsy;
Constriction, Pathologic;
Cough;
Dyspnea;
Epithelium;
Humans;
Inflammation;
Lung;
Male;
Pulmonary Aspergillosis;
Thorax
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2003;36(11):874-877
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Necrotizing bronchial aspergillosis usually occurs in the immumocompromised host. Aspergillus invades bronchial epithelium and forms endobronchial mass or endobronchial stenosis. A 78-year-old male patient with diabetus mellitus complaining of dyspnea and cough was admitted to our hospital. Plain chest X-ray and chest computed tomogram showed a large endobronchial mass and total collapse of left upper lobe of the lung. Bronchoscopic biopsy of the endobronchial mass revealed chronic inflammation. To confirm the endobronchial mass, we performed sleeve lobectomy of left upper lobe of the lung. Histologically the mass was diagnosed as necrotizing bronchial aspergillosis. We report a case of necrotizing bronchial aspergillosis in an elderly man who has diabetus mellitus with review of the literature.
