Article Text

Download PDFPDF
CASE REPORT
Typical carcinoid involving the main carina managed with arterial embolisation, endobronchial resection and ablation, ultimately followed by carinal resection
  1. Michael W Y Tan1,
  2. Paul Leong1,2,
  3. Phillip Antippa2,
  4. Barton R Jennings1
  1. 1Department of Monash Lung and Sleep, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
  2. 2Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Michael W Y Tan, mwytan{at}live.com

Summary

Bronchial carcinoids are uncommon pulmonary tumours, and the gold standard management is surgical resection. Their management is often complicated by their proximal location and propensity to bleed when manipulated. A 22-year-old man was found to have typical carcinoid tumour involving the carina and surgical resection was considered not feasible. We report our experience with a multimodality approach involving arterial embolisation, with subsequent endobronchial resection and ablation. Residual disease was found and managed with definitive carinal resection.

  • lung cancer (oncology)
  • endocrine cancer
  • interventional radiology
  • surgical oncology

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Footnotes

  • Contributors MWYT, PL and BRJ were responsible for study concept, design and drafting of the manuscript. MWYT, PL, PA and BRJ contributed to critical revision.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Patient consent Obtained.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.