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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;130:609-610
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Brief Communication

Recurrent hamartoma at the trocar incision site after video-assisted thoracic surgical resection

Corinna Ludwig, MD * , B. Passlick, MD, Erich Stoelben, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

Received for publication November 26, 2004; accepted for publication December 20, 2004.

* Address for reprints: Corinna Ludwig, MD, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Abt. Thoraxchirurgie, 79106 Freiburg, Germany (Email: ludwig@ch11.ukl.uni-freiburg.de).

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The most common benign tumor of the lung is the hamartoma representing 77%. 1 Go Hamartomas represent 4% to 8% of all solitary pulmonary nodules, 2 Go which present themselves as well-circumscribed, asymptomatic coin lesions within the pulmonary parenchyma. 3 Go Usually they are chondromatous hamartomas consisting of cartilage and are regarded as benign neoplasms derived from the peribronchial mesenchymal tissue. Symptoms such as cough, hemoptysis, or pulmonary infections arise only when the location is endobronchial, which is rare (10%). There is an overall incidental finding in approximately 0.25% of autopsies, and hamartomas are found more frequently in men than in women (2:1). 3 Go Multiple hamartomas are rare and do not include cartilage but pulmonary muscular or endothelial tissue and are therefore called hemangioleiomyomatous and fibroleiomyomatous hamartomas.

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