Pulmonary hamartoma is one of the most common benign lung tumors. Well-known conventional methods of treatment for lung hamartomas include VATS enucleation or wedge resection, bronchoplasty, and others. Here we present a case of endobronchial hamartoma that was successfully treated with cryosurgery by flexible bronchoscopy.
Bronchoscopy ; Cryosurgery ; Hamartoma ; Lung ; Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted

Pulmonary hamartoma is one of the most common benign lung tumors. Well-known conventional methods of treatment for lung hamartomas include VATS enucleation or wedge resection, bronchoplasty, and others. Here we present a case of endobronchial hamartoma that was successfully treated with cryosurgery by flexible bronchoscopy.
Bronchoscopy ; Cryosurgery ; Hamartoma ; Lung ; Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted

Humans ; Colon, Sigmoid ; Hamartoma/surgery* ; Schwann Cells ; Mucous Membrane

This paper presents an unusual solid mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver (MHL) in adult. A well defined solid mass in the left lobe of the liver was found in a 57-year-old female. Preoperative radiologic examinations demonstrated solid mass with multifocal calcifications abutting the gallbladder. By light microscopy, the lesion was composed of dense fibrous stroma with hyalinization, bile ducts and thick-walled vessels without hepatocytes. The solid and hyalinized mesenchymal component would suggest an unusual degenerative change representing a burnt-out MHL.
Case Report ; Female ; Hamartoma/surgery ; Hamartoma/radiography ; Hamartoma/pathology* ; Human ; Liver Neoplasms/surgery ; Liver Neoplasms/radiography ; Liver Neoplasms/pathology* ; Mesoderm/pathology ; Middle Age ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Refractory gelastic seizure is one of the most common clinical manifestations in patients with hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) and HH is usually regarded as the epileptogenic focus. A young female patient with a small HH and refractory seizures is reported here. However, both the seizure semiology and results of electroencephalogram monitoring indicated the right temporal region was the epileptogenic focus. Thus a standard right anterior temporal lobectomy was performed while the hamartoma preserved. There was a marked improvement in both seizure frequency and quality of life during a 13-month follow-up. The outcome supported the concept that independent epileptogenic focus outside of the hypothalamus might occur in patients with HH.
Adult ; Electroencephalography ; Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Female ; Hamartoma ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Humans ; Hypothalamic Diseases ; diagnosis ; surgery

The authors describe a case in which a tailgut cyst occurred at an unusual location in a 22-year-old woman referred for abdominal discomfort and urinary frequency. The left abdomen contained a palpable mass, found at imaging studies to be a homogeneous, unilocular and cystic, and anterior to the left kidney. After surgical excision, it was shown to be a tailgut cyst.
Adult ; Case Report ; Female ; Hamartoma/*radiography/surgery ; Human ; Kidney Diseases/*radiography/surgery ; Retroperitoneal Space

Child ; Female ; Hamartoma ; diagnosis ; pathology ; surgery ; Humans ; Tracheal Diseases ; diagnosis ; pathology ; surgery

Adult ; Central Nervous System Diseases ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Hamartoma ; diagnosis ; surgery ; Humans ; Male

Hamartoma ; diagnosis ; pathology ; surgery ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Liver Diseases ; diagnosis ; pathology ; surgery ; Male

Adult ; Chondroma ; pathology ; surgery ; Esophageal Diseases ; pathology ; surgery ; Esophageal Neoplasms ; pathology ; surgery ; Hamartoma ; pathology ; surgery ; Humans ; Male