[Chronic recurrent pneumonias in ossifying bronchial carcinoid tumor]

We describe the case history of a 13 year old boy with recurrent bronchitis and pneumonia over a period of 8 years. Because of the peculiar bronchoscopic finding of an osseous foreign body a chronical foreign body aspiration was considered likely, but not confirmed histologically. A bronchial carcinoid tumor with ossifications proved to be the cause of recurrent chest infections. Tumors arising from bronchial epithelia in childhood and adolescence are very uncommon, ossification in this age group is a rarity. In the eight years following the operation there has been no relapse.