[Bronchial adenoma with uncommon growth (author's transl)]

Report on a bronchial adenoma in the right lobus inferior pulmonalis (autopsy: histological bronchial adenoma from carcinoid type) of uncommon size and with growth till now not described. The tumor was diagnosed clinically and histologically 4 years before death of the patient, but was not operated. The tumor has continuously infiltrated the left atrium cordis via a vena pulmonalis. This case is stressing the decisive importance of the early diagnosis of bronchial adenoma.