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Case Reports
. 2006 Aug 3:1:19.
doi: 10.1186/1749-8090-1-19.

Giant pulmonary hamartoma

Somshekar Ganti  1 , Richard Milton, Les Davidson, Vladimir Anikin
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Case Reports

Giant pulmonary hamartoma

Somshekar Ganti et al. J Cardiothorac Surg. .

Abstract

Pulmonary hamartomas are usually an incidental finding and range in size from 1 cm to 8 cm in diameter in various series. We report a case of a massive pulmonary hamartoma (size 25.5 x 17.5 x 6.5 cm and weighing 1134 g) in a 61 year old male who presented with a short history of breathlessness. The tumour was arising from the medial border of the right lung and occupying most of the right chest extending in to the anterior mediastinum. The tumour was compressing the right lung and there was no evidence of infiltration into the surrounding structures. It was successfully treated by surgical resection and final histology was pulmonary hamartoma with predominantly adipose and leiomyomatous differentiation.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Chest radiograph showing soft tissue mass within the right hemithorax (A). CT (B) demonstrates that the mass contains low attenuation soft tissue suggestive of fat, and calcification, features in keeping with a teratoma.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Photograph of the resected hamartoma.
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