title: [Pulmonary hamartoma. A case report].
abstract: A 71-years-old man presented with an incidentally finding of a tumor in the left pulmonary apex that measured approximately 4.5 cm of diameter. The patient, had de preceding of chronic smoking. Bronchoscopy with biopsy by transthoracic punction suggested the presence of epidermoid carcinoma. In the radiologic control, an increase in tumor size from 4.5 cm to 5 cm of the lesion was observed in a period of three months. The patient was submited to surgery and a tumorectomy by posterolateral thoracotomy was performed. The postoperatory evolution was satisfactory. The final diagnosis was hamartoma of the lung.
authors.affiliation: Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad 189, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Veracruz, Veracruz, México. rgartor@yahoo.com.mx
authors.forename: René
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: García-Toral
authors.forename: Miguel Alberto
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Villarreal-Zaunbos
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vásquez-Fernández
authors.forename: Edna Griselda
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Prieto-Murguía
authors.forename: Luís
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Aguilar-Padilla
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018450:Disease Progression; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D013908:Thoracotomy; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed