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Case #23
Clinical data: 60 year old man with a coin lesion in the right upper lobe of the lung. No preoperative diagnosis could be established. Wedge resection was made. Frozen section diagnosis: Chondromatous hamartoma.
Pathology and comment: Chondromatous hamartomas of the lung are benign
processes that present differential diagnostic problems preoperatively. Macroscopical
feature is characteristic: firm, well-circumscribed white tumor which on
cut surface "drops out" of the lung tissue. Microscopically irregular glands with
respiratory epithelium and chondromatous tissue can be seen.
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