Bronchial carcinoid tumors

ABSTRACT

Bronchial carcinoid tumors are rare, but they have received increasing attention over the past two decades. This has resulted in a more meaningful classification and accurate definition of their character, but there still remains some dispute about their degree of malignancy and this has created some controversy concerning the adequacy of resection. Our experience with these tumors is described in this report of 14 patients seen at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery of Medical City Teaching Hospital in Baghdad between 1975 and 1985. To our knowledge, this is the first reported series from Iraq