Chondroma of the Trachea: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature

Chondrosarcoma of the Trachea

“…The most common symptoms are non productive cough, stridor, and dyspnea of long evolution [3,5,6,16]. These tumors are often misdiagnosed as asthma with poor response to treatment with bronchodilators.…”

“…There is in deed a wide range of procedures, it is im portant to point out that the only reported cases which had local recurrence [3,5] were treated endoscopically, one of them in the first occasion only [3].…”

“…Only the cases reported by Daniels et al [5] and Brewster et al [3] had local recurrences; the latter case was diagnosed as chon droma. However, only 3 of the 5 published cases with follow-up information had been followed up for more than 1 year.…”

Endobronchial Chondromas

“…However, the true incidence of chondromas is unknown, as they have been historically misclassified as hamartomas. 1,2 Endobronchial chondromas may be part of the Carney triad. The Carney triad is a rare non-hereditary condition affecting young women that also includes gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gastric epithelioid leiomyosarcoma) and extra-adrenal paragangliomas.…”