title: Extrapulmonary hamartoma.
abstract: We describe a rare case of extrapulmonary hamartoma. A 65-year-old man underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery to obtain a histological diagnosis of a tumor with an irregular shape in the subpleural region of the right apical segment. Thoracoscopy showed a chondromatous tumor in the extrapleural region. The tumor resection was uneventful. Pathology study showed a hamartoma outside the visceral pleura.
authors: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University and Saitama Medical Center, 1-3311 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan. tcvendow@jichi.ac.jp
authors: Tetsuya
authors: T
authors: Endo
authors: Shunsuke
authors: S
authors: Endo
authors: Tsuyoshi
authors: T
authors: Hasegawa
authors: Kenji
authors: K
authors: Tetsuka
authors: Shinichi
authors: S
authors: Yamamoto
authors: Shinichi
authors: S
authors: Otani
authors: Yoshihiko
authors: Y
authors: Kanai
authors: Yasuhiro
authors: Y
authors: Tezuka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome