Prolonged Air Leakage Caused by Mesenchymal Cystic Hamartoma of the Lung

Prolonged Air Leakage Caused by Mesenchymal Cystic Hamartoma of the Lung

A 16-year-old girl was transferred to the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery because of a spontaneous pneumothorax with prolonged air leakage. Chest computed tomography demonstrated a cystic lesion measuring 2×3 cm and involving the left upper lobe. Left upper lobectomy was performed via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. A pathologic examination of the specimen revealed a mes...

Mesenchymal cystic hamartoma of the lung

We report the case of an asymptomatic 51-year-old man, presenting with chest X-ray abnormalities consisting in multiple pulmonary nodules; the diagnosis of mesenchymal cystic hamartoma of the lung was made by an open lung biopsy, revealing both nodules of mesenchymal cells and cysts with a lining of normal or metaplastic epithelium. Clinical and pathological characteristics of this rare entity ...

Fatal haemorrhage from mesenchymal cystic hamartoma of the lung.

A 34 year old women was admitted to the hospital with a 9 year history of intermittent haemoptysis associated with increasing breathlessness. A working diagnosis of lymphangioleiomyomatosis was made, based on clinical, radiological and histological findings. Three years later, the patient was admitted to hospital with worsening haemoptysis, which rapidly progressed and resulted in death from ma...

Mesenchymal cystic hamartoma of the lung: a rare cause of relapsing pneumothorax.

Myxosarcoma complicating a cystic hamartoma of the lung.

Primary myxomas and myxosarcomas of the lung are very rare. Stout studied in 1948 the records of Columbia University and the cases reported in the world literature and was able to collect 140 cases but there were no myxomas arising from the lung or pleura. Miller and Jackson (1954) reported a case of myxosarcoma of the lung and Barkley and Cardozo (1957) published another case of myxomatous tum...