1. Predominant Cartilaginous Hamartoma: An Unusual Variant of Chondromatous Hamartoma
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Gilbert Seda, Mercury Y. Lin, and Dennis E. Amundson
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Lung Diseases ,congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Cartilaginous hamartoma ,Biopsy ,Hamartoma ,Adipose tissue ,Stroma ,Pulmonary nodule ,Humans ,Medicine ,Lung ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Hyaline cartilage ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business - Abstract
Chondromatous hamartomas are the most common benign lung tumors and the third most common pulmonary nodule. Histologically, they are characteristically composed of hyaline cartilage mixed with fibromyxoid stroma and adipose tissue surrounded by epithelial cells. We report the case of a healthy, 60-year-old woman with an incidentally discovered chondromatous hamartoma that was thorascopically excised. Her pulmonary hamartoma was predominantly cartilaginous, which only occurs in 1% of hamartomas.
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- 2010
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