A Case of Bronchial Granular Cell Tumor.

Park, Tae Byung; Song, Young Goo; Ku, Sung Hyun; Ko, Young Yoon; Hwang, Sung Chul; Lee, Yi Hyeong; Joo, Hee Jae

doi:1996.43.2.243

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 43(2); 1996 > Article

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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1996;43(2):243-250.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1996.43.2.243 Published online April 1, 1996.

A Case of Bronchial Granular Cell Tumor.

Tae Byung Park, Young Goo Song, Sung Hyun Ku, Young Yoon Ko, Sung Chul Hwang, Yi Hyeong Lee, Hee Jae Joo

¹Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
²Department of Histopathology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.

Abstract

Granular cell tumor (GCT) of tracheobronchial tree is a rare neoplasm comprising approximately 6-10% of all GCT and about 1.6% of all benign tumors of the tracheobronchial tree. Since the first observation of GCT in the bronchus by Kramer in the late 1930s, less than 100 cases have been reported in tracheobronchial tree, and probably no such case have been published in Korea yet. Here we report an experience concerning 53 year-old women with an active pulmonary tuberculosis, who also was diagnosed to have a bronchial GCT on bronchoscopy and immunohistochemistry of the specimens.