The Open Pathology Journal
2009, 3 : 131-133Published online 2009 December 9. DOI: 10.2174/1874375700903010131
Publisher ID: TOPATJ-3-131
Pulmonary Manifestations of Juvenile Laryngotracheal Papillomatosis: Case Report and Literature Review
Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Medical Faculty, Palacky University,
Olomouc, Czech Republic
ABSTRACT
In the present report, we report on a rare case of tracheobronchopulmonary spread of childhood recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis without ana association to prior HPV infection, in a 39-year-old female patient.
Recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis (RRLP) is a rare benign disease seen in children and a fewcases are reported in adults. Although RRLP is histologically a benign proliferation of stratified squamous epithelium and is usually limited to the larynx its spread to the tracheobronchial tree occurs in 2% to 29% of cases and to the pulmonary parenchyma in less than 7% of cases.