Bronchial Adenoma

Abstract

BRONCHIAL adenoma was first recognized sixty-five years ago, and yet it received little mention in the literature until relatively recently. Since the publication of Reisner's¹ article in 1928 several excellent clinical and pathological descriptions of this tumor have been written. The increasing awareness of bronchial adenoma has led to its more frequent recognition and to a more thorough understanding of the altered respiratory physiology and of the pulmonary complications to which it predisposes. The recent advances in thoracic surgery have broadened the therapeutic approach to these tumors, as well as to other types of pulmonary lesions. The purpose of this . . .