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Year : 2016 | Volume
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A case of solitary pulmonary nodule (large pulmonary chondroid hamartoma)
Sanuveda Rajasekhar1, Rashmi Patnayak1, Pavan Kumar Gururaj Kale2, Abha Chandra3, Amitabh Jena4
1 Department of Pathology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India 2 Department of Radiology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India 3 Department of Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India 4 Department of Surgical Oncology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Amitabh Jena Department of Surgical Oncology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati - 517 507, Andhra Pradesh India
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0975-2870.194203
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Chondroid hamartomas are rare benign tumors of the lung which show predominantly cartilage. Usually, they are small, solitary, and asymptomatic lesions. They are detected incidentally on chest X-ray or at the time of autopsy. Occasionally, large pulmonary hamartomas are encountered. We present a case of a 60-year-old male patient with a 6-month history of cough. His X-ray and computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest revealed a well-defined soft-tissue density lesion with popcorn calcification measuring 6.5 cm × 4.8 cm in the left lung upper lobe. A presumptive diagnosis of chondroid hamartoma was made in CT-guided percutaneous biopsy. A posterolateral thoracotomy and left upper lobectomy were done. There was a spherical gray-white firm mass noted in the resected lobectomy specimen. Postoperative histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of pulmonary chondroid hamartoma. This is an additional case of large chondroid hamartoma. |
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