Junco BMD, Barreto BA, Castro GN, Mata RM, Betancourt RG

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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.