Chondroma of the bronchus

Chondroma of the bronchus.

Primary chondroma of the lung.

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Chondroma of the scalp

A 26 year old man, with no specific past or family history, presented with slow growing subcutaneous mass in the right parietal region of about 4 cm. Skin examination revealed a firm subcutaneous nodule that was movable over the underlying bone. Physical examination was not remarkable other than above-described skin lesion. X-rays of the skull (A) and CT scan (B) showed a subcutaneous mass next...

Chondroma of the scaphoid.

Chondroma is the most common primary bone tumour of the hand, but carpal chondroma has, as far as we know, been reported only twice previously in the English language literature: in one report by Dahlin (1957), no localisation was mentioned: the other, by Takigawa (1971) described a patient with a chondroma in the scaphoid and lunate of the right wrist. We report two patients each with a chondr...

Leiomyoma of the bronchus.

The patient was a housewife aged 57 years. In 1942 she suffered from severe metrorrhagia stated to be caused by uterine fibroids. A subtotal hysterectomy was performed in a country hospital, but the pathological details of this are not available. Since this operation and until the onset of the illness to be described, the patient was in excellent health. In July 1949, whilst a front-seat passen...