We describe a 10-year-old boy with a rare large multicystic pulmonary chondroid hamartoma in the right lower lobe presenting with severe respiratory distress. The radiological evaluation showed a large multicystic lesion in the right lower lobe with pneumothorax. Commonly, pulmonary hamartomas are asymptomatic, small in size, and are diagnosed incidentally in adults. Our case is highly unusual ...

An 8 year old girl presented with gross hepatomegaly, anaemia and pyrexia unresponsive to antibiotics. At laparotomy a cystic mass 19 cm in diameter was found arising from the liver. The cyst contained 2.4 litres of changed blood and an abscess cavity filled with thick pus was present in the cyst wall. Histological examination showed the appearances of a mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver, a ra...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic hamartoma is an extremely rare benign disease of the pancreas. Only 30 cases have been reported to date. CASE PRESENTATION A 68-year-old man presented with an asymptomatic solid and multi-cystic lesion in the uncus of the pancreas, incidentally detected on abdominal enhanced computed tomography. The tumor was found to be a well-demarcated solid and multi-cystic lesion wi...

A 29-day-old infant was evaluated at our center for a hepatic mass found during gestation. Ultrasound revealed a heterogeneous lesion which comprised three anechoic areas with hypoechoic debris and a predominantly hyperechoic central region with signs of vascularization on Doppler imaging (Figure 1A). Computed tomography showed a large bulging mass with three clearly defined cystic components w...

We report a case with prenatally diagnosed large cystic-solid mesenchymal chest wall hamartoma. An attempt of conservative management was made however repeated intralesional hemorrhage led to enlargement and severe anemia which required urgent resection at the age of 8 weeks. The infant had an unimpaired development over a follow-up of 4 years.

Cystic hamartoma refers to rare benign lung tumors. The literature describes 17 cases of this disease. tumor may look like multiple bilateral cysts or a solitary single-chamber multi-chamber cyst large size, which makes it difficult diagnose. disease can be complicated by spontaneous pneumothorax. itself often looks An observation 52-year-old man complaining chest pain and shortness breath is p...

In pulmonary pathology the term "hamartoma " is most commonly applied to a group of tumours in adults which usually contain cartilage as a constituent and arise from connective tissue (Sutherland, Aylwin, and Brewin, 1953). Willis (1958) does not think such growths are named correctly and gives good reasons for regarding them as acquired mixed tumours. On the other hand the mass replacing the e...

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 ...

This report describes a case of mesenchymal cystic hamartoma of the liver with diagnostic imaging work-up using only ultrasound and MRI. We demonstrate an approach starting from the pediatrician's physical exam culminating in surgical resection and pathologic confirmation with an emphasis on MR imaging.