Lipofibromatous hamartoma is a rare tumor-like overgrowth of fibroadipose tissue surrounding the nerves. Most commonly, it involves the median nerve. The tumor is usually present at birth and grows very slowly. The expected age of clinical presentation is the third or fourth decades of life. The case reported here had a rapid overgrowth and presented at the age of eight. Our case is the first r...

Table 1. Benign Nodular Lesios M imicking HCC 1. Nodular hyperplasias 1) Focal nodular hyperplasia 2) Nodular regenerative hyperplasias 3) Large regenerative nodules 2. Benign epithelial tumors 1) Hepatocellular adenoma 2) H ile duct adenoma (peribiliary gland hamartoma) → von M yenburg complex (biliary hamartoma) 3. Vasoformative tumorous lesions 1) Cavernous hemangioma → Sclerosed hemangioma ...

An 11-year-old girl with low-grade fever, night sweats, thrombocytopenia, and an 8-year history of progressive splenomegaly underwent an elective splenectomy. Pathologic diagnosis was multiple splenic hamartoma. The patient’s symptoms resolved after the splenectomy. Since first described by Rokitansky in 1861, ;140 cases of splenic hamartoma have been described in the literature. Most of the sp...

Hamartoma of the esophagus is a rare lesion and the number of cases reported in the literature to date is limited. The majority of hamartomas are intraluminal tumors located in the upper third of the esophagus. Histopathologically, the majority of these tumors comprise a mixture of adipose tissue, skeletal/smooth muscle tissue, vascular components and fibrous connective tissue. We herein presen...

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Hamartomas are the most common benign tumors of the lung. Endobnronchial hamartomas are even rarer and infrequently causes hemoptysis. We report a case of endobronchial hamartoma that was originating from a segment bronchus and invisible in chest X-ray. A 63-year-old man was admitted to hospital with hemoptysis. A CT scan revealed endobronchial mass obstructing anterior bronchus of the right lo...

Angiomyomatous hamartoma is a rare tumour of lymph nodes. This report describes a case of angiomyomatous hamartoma in the inguinal lymph node. The patient was a 33-year-old woman who underwent surgery because of a right inguinal mass. The excised specimen consisted of a grossly enlarged lymph node covered with fatty tissue, measuring 4.5 cm in diameter. On microscopic examination, the lymph nod...

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary hamartoma is a rare benign tumor of the lung, accounting for 3% of all tumors of the lung (1). The term hamartoma was first introduced by Albrecht in 1904 to describe tumor-like malformations resulting from a presumptive development abnormality. In 1934, Goldsworthy applied this term to benign tumors located in the lung that were predominantly composed of a combination of...

Acquired scrotal giant muscular hamartoma is an uncommon benign lesion with fewer than 10 documented cases all over the world. It is characterized by a proliferation of dermal smooth muscle bundles of scrotum dartos fascia. The authors report a rare case of acquired scrotal giant muscular hamartoma, which occurred in a 70-year-old severely obese and diabetic man presenting with a progressive sc...

AIM To assess CT and MR manifestations and their diagnostic value in splenic hamartoma with review of literatures. METHODS We described a woman who was accidentally found to have a splenic tumor by ultrasound of the abdomen. CT and MR findings of this splenic hamartoma were proved by pathology retrospectively. RESULTS The CT and MR findings in this case included a ball-like mass with homoge...