Der Granularzelltumor der Luftwege – eine seltene Tumorentit?t

摘要

Introduction: Pulmonary lesions are often detected in routine x-rays, leading to a more invasive diagnostic pathway. Occasionally rare tumor entities are encountered. Case report: We report a patient, who had a check-up where chest x-ray showed a pulmonary lesion. The following CT imaging confirmed the suspicion. On bronchoscopy multiple endobronchial lesions were found. The initial pulmonaly lesion was confirmed in a puncture as a chondrohamartoma. The larger endobronchial lesions were surgically resected and diagnosed as granular cell tumours. Postoperative controlls excluded a recurrence and the ones left in place showed no progression. Conclusion: The granular cell tumour of the lung is a rare tumour entity mainly reported as a case report. Optimal therapy of these mostly accidentally found tumours is either bronchoscopical or surgical resection, both therapies showing the same results. The lesions are mainly benign. For the few patients with a follow-up no recurrence has been reported. Due to the benign histology and the excellent prognosis no further treatment is required.