[Development of the disease and autopsy findings in a case of malignant hemangioendothelioma of the right main bronchus (author's transl)].

The case of a 47-years-old woman with malignant hemangioendothelioma growing from the wall of the right main bronchus is reported. Due to its endobronchial growth, the tumor had led to early obliteration of the bronchus with atelectasis of the right lung, perforated the bronchial wall and had grown up in the mediastinum to the size of 8,5 X 7 X 5 cm bounded by a wall of fibrous tissue. The development of the disease had required about 3 month only on the whole. Exstirpation of the tumour had not been advisable owing to its unfavourable location. In spite of the considerable size of the tumour, no metastases have been founded in the autopsy.