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Muco-Epidermoid Tumor of the Bronchus

1961; Elsevier BV; Volume: 40; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1378/chest.40.6.652

2589-3890

Charles V. Meckstroth, Horace B. Davidson, GEORGE O. KRESS,

Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

As the techniques of pulmonary resection became known and applied, the results of the removal of various pulmonary tumors were compared. The difference in the five-year survival rates of patients with bronchogenic carcinoma and bronchial adenomas was apparent. Geipel, Kramer, Wessler and Rabin made notable contributions in this work.2’5”#{176} However, it was not until 1937 that the differences between the two types of bronchial adenomas were clearly brought forth by Hamperl.3 The more common variety, the carcinoid adenoma, was first reported by Muller in 1882. These are generally benign and comprise 90 per cent of most series of bronchial adenomas. The less common variety, the cylindroid type, was first described by Heschl in 1877. These lesions account for the remaining 10 per cent and have been more descriptively named adenoid cystic carcinoma, The similarity between this latter type of bronchial adenoma and the counterpart in the salivary and lacrimal glands was sufficient to warrant the name “cylindroma.” The term “cylindroma” was first used by Biliroth’ in 1859 to describe a tumor of the orbit and it has been applied to lesions histologically similar in the breast and in the mucous membrane of the mouth and pharynx.