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Department of Pathology

Case of the Month September 2003

A 43 year-old man with cough, hemoptysis and shortness of breath

Jason Fowler, PA; Michael Szwerc, MD and Scott Nestor, DO

 

Gross Description

The specimen was received in the gross room labeled “tracheal mass” for frozen section. The specimen consisted of a single fragment of pink-hemorrhagic soft tissue measuring 0.2cm in greatest dimension. The specimen was entirely submitted for frozen section analysis.