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bronchial adenoma


  • most common benign lung tumor (but only 1/50 as common as Ca)

  • malignant potential
  • 75% resemble carcinoid tumor or "cylindroma"
  • possibly benign form of oat-cell tumor

  • hemoptysis
  • bronchial obstruction ==> air-trapping


Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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