[Cytology of bronchial inflammatory pseudotumor]

A presentation is given of a 23-year-old girl who due to cough, hemoptysis and chest pains was treated in the regional hospital as having pneumonia. A bronchoscopy was performed and it revealed the tumor which obturated the right main bronchus. Due to this, surgery was performed. The cytologic analysis of the sample, taken intraoperatively, showed that numerous fibroblasts, single or combined in groups, lymphocytes, plasma cells, mastocytes and some neutrophilic granulocytes were present as well as macrophages.