Endobronchial Management of an Endobronchial Hamartoma

Surgical management of endobronchial hamartoma

to have mass lesion in the left main bronchus [Figure 1]. Fiber-optic bronchoscopy was done which revealed an endobronchial lesion in the left main bronchus [Figure 2]. Biopsy, however, was inconclusive, and therefore, a repeat biopsy with a larger chunk of tissue was done which also was inconclusive. The lesion was purely endobronchial, and in one of the biopsies, a suspicion for carcinoid tum...

Endobronchial Hamartoma

Resection of an endobronchial hamartoma by cryotherapy

A 72-year-old man was referred to our hospital with an endobronchial mass spotted on chest computed tomography (CT). On examination, he was afebrile, but complained of cough and sputum. Laboratory test results were normal. His chest CT showed an ovoid fat attenuation nodule in the left upper lobe bronchus (Fig. 1A). Flexible bronchoscopy was performed to investigate the endobronchial lesion, an...

Endobronchial chondromatous hamartoma in an infant.

Hyperinflation or atelectasis of a lung or one of its lobes is generally due to partial or complete bronchial obstruction. Intramural large airway obstructive lesions or cysts are uncommon in the pediatric age group. They are usually discovered in the supraglottic or glottic areas. Primary pulmonary, tracheal, or bronchial tumors are very unusual in children. In this report, we describe an infa...

Endobronchial hamartoma mimicking malignant lung tumor contralateral endobronchial metastasis

RATIONALE Endobronchial hamartoma, the most common benign lung tumor, is located in the bronchus, and it easily mimics lung cancer or bronchial metastasis. Endobronchial hamartoma can cause coughing, hemoptysis, and pulmonary infection; thus, it should be treated right away by surgery or fiberoptic bronchoscopy. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a rare case of endobronchial hamartoma in which the cl...