title: Nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma, a rare pediatric tumor: Case report.
abstract: Nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma has characteristic clinicopathological features and it is accepted as the upper airway analogue of mesenchymal hamartoma of the chest wall. It is a rare lesion and only 31 cases have been reported in the English literature until 2014. In this article, a 13-year-old nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma case is presented, which is the first nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma case from Turkey. Although, nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma has been accepted as a benign lesion, the possibility of malignant transformation should be kept in mind, and detailed histologic examination should be performed particularly in adult nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Hitit University Faculty of Medicine, Çorum.
authors.forename: Adnan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ünal
authors.affiliation: Clinics of Otolaryngology, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Rauf Oğuzhan
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Kum
authors.affiliation: Clinics of Otolaryngology, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yonca
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Avcı
authors.affiliation: Clinics of Pathology, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Devrim Tuba
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Ünal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014421:Turkey
keywords: chondromesenchymal hamartoma; nasal mass; pediatric