Pulmonary Mucus Gland Adenomas: Are They Always of Endobronchial Localization?

• Main Authors: Georgia Karpathiou (Author), Efthimios Sivridis (Author), Dimitrios Mikroulis (Author), Marios Froudarakis (Author), Alexandra Giatromanolaki (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mucus gland adenoma is an extremely rare benign lung tumor, presumed to arise from the bronchial mucus glands; it is a TTF-1 negative tumor, centrally located, causing the clinical manifestations of obstruction. We report a TTF-1 negative mucus gland adenoma, arising into the medial bronchopulmonary...