title: Endoscopic removal of a chondromatous hamartoma by bronchoscopic electrosurgical snare and argon plasma coagulation.
abstract: A 31-year-old woman presented with a cough, pain on the left side on deep inspiration, dyspnea, and fever. A chest x-ray showed pneumonic infiltration of the left middle and lower lung and decreased left hemithorax volume. A computed tomography (CT) revealed an occlusion of the left main bronchus by an intraluminal tumour. Bronchoscopic biopsy specimens suggested an endobronchial hamartoma. Therefore, we resected the tumour endobronchially using a bronchoscopic electrosurgical snare and argon plasma coagulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chest Diseases, Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. tbuskul@yahoo.com
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Uskul
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baran
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Turan
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sogukpinar
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aksoy
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Turker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D004598:Electrosurgery; D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D017075:Laser Coagulation