Middle lobe syndrome: a case report

Authors

  • Miguel Damián Junco Bonet Hospital universitarioManuel Ascunce Domenech
  • Adolfo Barreto Barroso
  • Nguyen Castro Gutiérrez
  • Magalys Mata del Río
  • Gilberto Betancourt Reyes

Keywords:

síndrome de lóbulo medio, calcificación ganglionar, tuberculosis.

Abstract

Background: middle lobe syndrome is currently considered a radiologic clinical syndrome characterized by atelectasis chronic course or varying degrees of pneumonitis and bronchiectasis, recurrent or chronic, secondary to obstruction or compression by lymph nodes of the infectious or neoplastic origin middle lobe bronchus.
Objective: to describe a clinical case of a patient with the diagnosis of syndrome of the middle lobe caused by endobronchial non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Clinical case: a 19-year-old male patient with a pathological history of bronchial asthma. The reason for entry was general discomfort, pain in right side end, dyspnea to small efforts, fever of 38 degrees Celsius, hemoptoic sputum. Physical examination found mucous skin pallor, decrease of the vesicular murmur, presence of grunting and hissing crackles in right lung field. The diagnosis was made by the imaging studio, and bronchoscopy with endobronchial tumor biopsy.
Conclusions: the average caused by Lymphoma endobronchial lobe syndrome is a rare diagnosis; therefore it was decided to present this case.MIDDLE LOBE SYNDROME/diagnosis; TUBERCULOSIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; ADULT; CASE REPORTS.
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Author Biography

Miguel Damián Junco Bonet, Hospital universitarioManuel Ascunce Domenech

Especialista de I Grado en Medicina Intensiva del Adulto. Máster en Urgencias Médicas. Máster en Longevidad Satisfactoria. Profesor Auxiliar.

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2017-11-28

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Junco Bonet MD, Barreto Barroso A, Castro Gutiérrez N, Mata del Río M, Betancourt Reyes G. Middle lobe syndrome: a case report. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2017 Nov. 28 [cited 2025 Aug. 6];21(6):788-93. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/5256

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Vol. 21 No. 6 (2017)

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Case Reports

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