Fibroepithelial Polyp of the Bronchus: Value of a Cryobiopsy Technique

Desai, Pankil; Bernstein, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2018.08.788

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“…The authors of this case concluded that bronchial fibroepithelial polyps may display AFI positivity and the right diagnosis should not be confused by this positivity [15]. Desai and Bernstein described a 58year-old male with an endobronchial lesion in the left lower lobe bronchus in bronchoscopy [16]. The lesion was biopsied using a cryoprobe and histopathology showed a fibroepithelial polyp.…”

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Bronchial Fibroepithelial Polyp With Severe Hemoptysis as First Manifestation: A Case Report

Georgakopoulou¹,

Kourtelesi²,

Mermigkis³

et al. 2020

Cureus

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Fibroepithelial polyps are uncommon benign tumors that mostly occur in skin, oral cavity and genitourinary tract. These lesions have common morphological features with other mesenchymal tumors such as angiomyofibroblastoma, aggressive angiomyxoma, and cellular angiofibroma and present with numerous histological appearances. Benign endobronchial tumors are rare. These neoplasms have a slow growth and usually are related to bronchial obstruction. Only a few cases of bronchial fibroepithelial polyps have been reported. Bronchial fibroepithelial polyps might present with airway stenosis resulting in atelectasis and bronchiectasis and the most frequent manifestations are recurrent infection, refractory asthma, dyspnea and hemoptysis. Chronic inflammation is associated with the pathogenesis of fibroepithelial polyps. Treatment varies according to mainly to the size and symptoms. Small lesions presenting with few symptoms can be treated with corticosteroids and antibiotics while invasive techniques including bronchoscopic resection of the polyp or lobectomy are used for larger lesions. We report a case of a bronchial fibroepithelial polyp with severe hemoptysis as the first manifestation. Physicians should always suspect these lesions in the differential diagnosis of hemoptysis and with initial right diagnosis surgical procedures can be avoided.

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“…The lesion was biopsied using a cryoprobe and histopathology showed a fibroepithelial polyp. The authors concluded that cryobiopsy is a useful technique for both enhanced sample size and a decrease in crush artifacts for the diagnosis of a fibroepithelial polyp of the bronchus [16].…”

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Bronchial Fibroepithelial Polyp With Severe Hemoptysis as First Manifestation: A Case Report

Georgakopoulou¹,

Kourtelesi²,

Mermigkis³

et al. 2020

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“…However, we could only access 37 case reports, including our own ( Table 1 ). 3 , 5 , 7 , 9 - 16 Based on what these case reports have suggested, it is been theorized that the development of bronchial FEP might be linked to ongoing irritation of the bronchial passages due to different factors like smoking and infections.…”

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Misdiagnosed Asthma Turned Out to Be Bronchial Fibroepithelial Polyp: Case Report and Review of Literature

Salahaldeen,

Hanin,

Dana

et al. 2024

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Bronchial fibroepithelial polyps are exceedingly rare with few cases have been reported. They can manifest with a wide array of symptoms; ranging from being totally asymptomatic, cough, refractory dyspnea, and hemoptysis. In our case, our patient’s condition was diagnosed and was managed as asthma. It is one of the rare benign conditions to be encountered, shares similar morphology with other tumors such as angiomyofibroblastoma, aggressive angiomyxoma, and cellular angiofibroma. These lesions have a slow growth pattern which may end up with obstruction. According to the tumor size and symptoms caused by it, treatment varies from observation to complete resection. This case describes an incidental finding of fibroepithelial polyp in the main bronchus for a patient with long-term refractory cough for 5 years, was misdiagnosed to have asthma. Diagnosis typically involves imaging and bronchoscopy, followed by appropriate therapeutic measures and careful monitoring to assess the prognosis.

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“…FEP is one of the benign tumors in some organs like oral cavity, skin, colon and genitourinary tract and in some literature were reported in upper and lower airways as endobronchial lesions (2,3). FEP is a smooth-surfaced polyp that is known as a mesenchymal tumor (4).…”

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Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the urinary bladder; a case report

2019

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Introduction: Fibroepithelial polyp (FEP) is a benign tumor that is presented frequently in some of the organs like oral cavity, skin, colon and genitourinary tract, but in airway is rare. Case Presentation: We present a rare case in this paper, with recurrent bronchial FEP that was near completely obstructed right main bronchus that we managed her successfully with interventional bronchoscopy. In this case report we describe this rare condition. Conclusion: Airway FEP is uncommon benign tumor that may obstruct airways and rarely may be recurrent like our case.

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Fibroepithelial Polyp of the Bronchus: Value of a Cryobiopsy Technique

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Bronchial Fibroepithelial Polyp With Severe Hemoptysis as First Manifestation: A Case Report

Bronchial Fibroepithelial Polyp With Severe Hemoptysis as First Manifestation: A Case Report

Misdiagnosed Asthma Turned Out to Be Bronchial Fibroepithelial Polyp: Case Report and Review of Literature

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the urinary bladder; a case report

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