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Endobronchial Lipomatous Hamartoma

Department of Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Gazi University
¹ Department of Pathology, Ataturk Center for Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery, Ankara, Turkey

For reprint information contact: Ibrahim C Kurkcuoglu, MD Tel: 90 312 214 1000 ext. 5635 Fax: 90 312 202 5635 Email: cankurkcuoglu{at}hotmail.com, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty, Gazi University, Ankara 06500, Turkey.

Pulmonary hamartomas are the most common benign neoplasm of the lung, occurring in the parenchyma or sometimes within the bronchi. Reported is a case of a 64-year-old male patient with an endobronchial tumor. Sleeve left upper lobectomy was performed and histhopathological examination revealed multiple growths of endobronchial hamartomatous foci. This report demonstrates that endobronchial hamartomas may develop from multiple foci.