Bronchial carcinoid in children

Authors

  • Surendran Aneeshkumar Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • L. Sundararajan Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • T. Sunder Department of Thoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Ayesha Shahnaz Department of Pediatrics, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20180327

Keywords:

Bronchial carcinoid, Lung sparing surgery, Pneumonectomy

Abstract

Bronchial carcinoids (BCs) are uncommon, slow growing, low-grade malignant neoplasm comprising 0.5-2.5% of all primary lung cancers. Although BC’s in childhood often have an endobronchial location causing airway obstruction, they are frequently misdiagnosed as benign conditions, resulting in a delay in definitive diagnosis and treatment. Lung sparing surgery should be done whenever possible, more so in children, for better quality of life and minimizing skeletal abnormality which follows pneumonectomy. We present two cases of bronchial carcinoid in young children.

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2018-01-24

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Aneeshkumar, S., Sundararajan, L., Sunder, T., & Shahnaz, A. (2018). Bronchial carcinoid in children. International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 6(2), 711–715. https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20180327

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