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Case Reports

Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor in the Airway of a Child

^a Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
^b Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
^c Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah

Accepted for publication July 9, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Uchida, Pediatric Pulmonology, 100 N Mario Capecchi Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84113 (Email: derek.uchida{at}hsc.utah.edu).

This report describes a 9-year-old boy who was found to have an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor completely occluding the right mainstem bronchus. Initial subtotal resection at an outside facility resulted in prompt recurrence of the tumor. At our institution, total resection with bronchotomy and pericardial patch repair resulted in an excellent outcome with no evidence of recurrence at 1 year post-resection.