title: Outcomes of surgical treatments of pulmonary hamartoma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To retrospectively analyze the results of surgical resection in patients with pulmonary hamartoma (PH) in the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital during the past 30 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively enrolled 226 patients with PH who underwent surgical resection in the PLA General Hospital between January 1980 and January 2010, including tumors of pulmonary parenchyma (n = 216) and endobronchial tumors (n = 10). The type of operation include tumor enucleation (n = 103), wedge resection (n = 103), and lobectomy (n = 20). The postoperative follow-up time was 5-22 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only one postoperative death occurred. The intraoperative blood loss and the drainage volume within 24 postoperative hours were significantly less in patients underwent lateral thoracotomy or video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) than those of patients underwent conventional incision. None of the patients experienced regional recurrence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We recommended lateral thoracotomy or VATS for the patients whose PH could not be confirmed preoperatively, and tumor enucleation or wedge resection was recommended.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult