Case Report: Resection of Giant Endotracheal Hamartoma by Electrosurgical Snaring via Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy in a 9-Year-Old Boy

Lei Wu; Wei Chen; PengCheng Li; Shuxian Li; Zhimin Chen

doi:10.3389/fped.2021.528966

Case Report: Resection of Giant Endotracheal Hamartoma by Electrosurgical Snaring via Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy in a 9-Year-Old Boy

Front Pediatr. 2021 Apr 27:9:528966. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.528966. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Lei Wu^{1

2}, Wei Chen^{2

3}, PengCheng Li^{2

4}, Shuxian Li¹, Zhimin Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonology, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China.
² Department of Endoscopy Center, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China.
³ Department of Pediatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.

Abstract

Endotracheal hamartomas are rarely encountered in children. The symptoms of endotracheal hamartoma may include cough, dyspnea, hemoptysis, chest pain, purulent sputum, and fever. The non-specific symptoms often result in a delayed diagnosis. Among the various treatments of this rare disease, surgical resection seems to be the most widely used, while endoscopic treatment is rarely described. Herein, we describe the case of a 9-year-old boy with an endotracheal hamartoma that was successfully excised by electrosurgical snaring via fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FB). The resection of select benign endotracheal tumors in children can be conducted using electrocautery, which can be regarded as an alternative therapy to bronchotomy.

Keywords: airway tumors; case report; endotracheal lesions; hamartoma; therapeutic bronchoscopy.

Publication types

Case Reports