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To Be, or Not to Be … Pectoral Angina? The Pain Is the Same, but the Etiology Is Different-A Case Report.
Life (Basel)
August 2024
Discipline of Internal Medicine and Ambulatory Care, Prevention and Cardiovascular Recovery, Department of VI Cardiology, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania.
Article Synopsis
- Chest pain is a common reason for emergency room visits, and this case discusses a 48-year-old woman who initially refused hospital admission despite presenting with typical chest pain suggesting a coronary issue.
- During further evaluation with a CT coronary angiography, an esophageal tumor (leiomyoma) was accidentally discovered, which was surgically treated, leading to the patient becoming asymptomatic.
- One year later, she complained of similar chest pain again; while it was initially thought to be related to the previous tumor, tests confirmed it was due to coronary issues this time, yet she still opted to avoid hospital admission for further procedures.
Tracheal leiomyoma imitating refractory asthma: A case report.
Int J Surg Case Rep
April 2023
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address:
Introduction And Importance: Tracheal leiomyoma is an extremely rare benign tumor. It mostly presents in the third decade of life and mostly affects men. Herein, we describe a patient with tracheal leiomyoma which was treated as asthma for 2 years before definite diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBronchial Leiomyoma: Importance of Preoperative Biopsy for Lung Preserving Surgery.
Oman Med J
November 2022
Pathology Department, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman.
Tracheobronchial leiomyoma is a rare tumor of the airway. They arise from the lower respiratory tract tissue of the bronchi, trachea, and lung. Symptomatology is based on the degree of endoluminal bronchial obstruction, and surgical resection is generally the mainstay of treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEsophageal submucosal tumor diagnosed with EBUS-guided transbronchial mediastinal cryobiopsy: A case report.
Thorac Cancer
November 2022
Department of Endoscopy, Respiratory Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Cryobiopsy is advantageous for collecting larger specimens with minimum crushing compared to forceps biopsy and transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA), but it has not been widely used for mediastinal tumors. In this report, a leiomyoma of the thoracic esophagus was diagnosed with endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial mediastinal cryobiopsy (EBUS-cryo). An asymptomatic 49-year-old woman had a 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe right apical tracheal bronchus with bronchial leiomyoma: A case report.
Medicine (Baltimore)
April 2022
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Rationale: Tracheal bronchus is an aberrant bronchus that arises directly from the carina of the trachea. It was rare, with only 0.1% to 2% on the right and 0.
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