[Bronchial carcinoid].

A total of seven patients with bronchial carcinoids were treated at our hospital during the period from 1975 to 1991. Debut of symptoms varied from eight months to ten years before diagnosis. Cough, copious mucus, hemoptysis and recurrent lobar pneumonias were common. Six tumours were identified by chest X-ray. All tumours were visualised bronchoscopically; five showed as cherry-red polypoid tumours, one as a necrotising tumour and one as a stenosis of the bronchus. One patient underwent pneumonectomy, three lobectomy, one bilobectomy, one segment resection and one sleeve resection and lobectomy combined. Two cases were complicated by empyema and one was not radically operated due to impaired cardiopulmonary function. None showed carcinoid syndrome. All patients are still alive, and no recurrences or metastases have appeared.