title: Giant pulmonary hamartoma--a rare presentation of a common tumor.
abstract: Hamartomata, the most common benign tumors of the lung, are rarely symptomatic and usually come to clinical attention as coin-shaped lesions on a routine plain chest roentgenogram. We report a case of a 63-year-old woman presenting with reduced endurance on exercise. The plain chest roentgenogram showed a tumor in the left chest. After clinical work-up, the patient underwent radical tumor resection through a lateral thoracotomy. The resected tumor, with two separate nodules, measured 26 x 25 cm and weighed 3.2 kg. The histopathology work-up showed pulmonary hamartoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Paracelsus Private Medical University, Landeskliniken Salzburg, Austria. j.hutter@salk.at
authors.forename: Joerg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hutter
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reich-Weinberger
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hutarew
authors.forename: Hubert J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed