Giant Endobronchial Inflammatory Polyp

Inflammatory endobronchial polyp is a rare disease mostly en-countered in asthmatic patients. Chronic airway and foreign material irritation or thermal injury may result in the formation of granulated tissues and become polypoid mass. Herein, we describe a 52-year-old man with severe respiratory distress and infection with 35 years history of smoking. He had an obstruc-tive pattern in his pulmonary function tests and severe bron-chiectasis of right lower lobe that responded well to lobectomy with polypectomy. Pathologic examination revealed large en-dobronchial polyp 9x2 cm obstructing right and left bronchi and right lower lobe bronchiectasis. Such large inflammatory endo-bronchial polyp has rarely been presented in literature