Case report

Giant pulmonary hamartoma

Somshekar Ganti¹ , Richard Milton¹ , Les Davidson² and Vladimir Anikin¹

¹  Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7T, UK

²  Department of Histopathology, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2006, 1:19doi:10.1186/1749-8090-1-19

Published:	3 August 2006

Abstract

Pulmonary hamartomas are usually an incidental finding and range in size from 1 cm to 8 cm in diameter in various series. We report a case of a massive pulmonary hamartoma (size 25.5 × 17.5 × 6.5 cm and weighing 1134 g) in a 61 year old male who presented with a short history of breathlessness. The tumour was arising from the medial border of the right lung and occupying most of the right chest extending in to the anterior mediastinum. The tumour was compressing the right lung and there was no evidence of infiltration into the surrounding structures. It was successfully treated by surgical resection and final histology was pulmonary hamartoma with predominantly adipose and leiomyomatous differentiation.