Endobronchial fibrosarcoma presenting as recurrent left-sided pneumonia
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Atul Gupta
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK.Search for more papers by this authorRosemary Marsh
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorSimon Jordan
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorSimon Padley
Department of Radiology, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorKareem Aboualfa
Department of Histopathology, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorOla Smith
Department of Paediatrics, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent, UK
Search for more papers by this authorCyril Fisher
Department of Histopathology, Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorAndrew G. Nicholson
Department of Histopathology, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorAndrew Bush
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Atul Gupta
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK.Search for more papers by this authorRosemary Marsh
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorSimon Jordan
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorSimon Padley
Department of Radiology, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorKareem Aboualfa
Department of Histopathology, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorOla Smith
Department of Paediatrics, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent, UK
Search for more papers by this authorCyril Fisher
Department of Histopathology, Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorAndrew G. Nicholson
Department of Histopathology, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorAndrew Bush
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
We report a 6-year old girl with recurrent and non-resolving left-sided “pneumonia” over a 3-year period who was diagnosed with an endobronchial low-grade fibrosarcoma. This highlights the importance of considering underlying localized airway obstruction in any case of clinically or radiologically atypical pneumonia in a child and therefore the need for careful follow-up of all but the most typical cases. Pediatr. Pulmonol. 2011; 46:610–613. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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