A Young Male Presented with Lung Collapse

Kazi Mohammad Ariful Kabir1, Bashir Ahmed2, Mohammed Kamrul Hasan1, Md. Shahedur Rahman Khan2, AHM Raihanuzzaman Sarkar3, ASM Fateh Akram3

Abstract
Bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumors which are slow growing neuroendocrine tumors arising from
Enterochromaffin (EC) cells, accounts for 10% of all carcinoid tumors. Mentioned here is a case report of
31 year old male with asthma like symptom and hemoptysis. CXR P/A view showed inhomogeneous
opacity of left hemithorax and features suggestive of collapse. Contrast enhanced CT scan of the chest
showed a well-defined 2.5 x 1.5 cm circular intraluminal growth occluding the left main bronchus.
Bronchoscopy revealed a red, shiny, smooth walled growth 1 cm beyond the carina in the left main bronchus,
attached to the roof of the bronchial wall, causing ball valve mechanism. Histopathology from tumor confirmed
the diagnosis of bronchial carcinoid.

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