Pulmonary Granular Cell Tumor

Pulmonary granular cell tumor (PGCT) is an uncommon, benign neoplasm that rarely occurs in the lungs; it is more frequently found in the skin or breast.Symptoms may vary depending on the location and size of the tumor; it is often located in the bronchus, and persistent cough is a common symptom.The sensitivity of chest radiographs is low in PGCTs, whose radiological features may also vary according to the location and size, while thoracic computed tomography (CT) and fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) are considered the gold standard methods for diagnosis.When the literature is examined, there is no consensus or guideline on the treatment of PGCTs of the lung since there is very little data on PGCTs of the lung, which are mostly retrospective studies or case reports.The general approach is surgical resection.In this article, we report a 48-year-old patient who had cough for 1 year; the thorax CT was reported as dilated bronchial structure and infected bronchiectasis, but was diagnosed as PGCT with endobronchial lesion on FOB and treated surgically.