title: Predominant cartilaginous hamartoma: an unusual variant of chondromatous hamartoma.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Pulmonary and Critical Care, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA 92134, USA. gilbert.seda@med.navy.mil
authors.forename: Gilbert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Seda
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Amundson
authors.forename: Mercury Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed