European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 1, 176-179, Copyright © 1987 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Mediastinal chondrohamartoma
PY Brichon, P Pilichowski, E Brambilla, M Coulomb and R Latreille
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Grenoble, France.
Chondromatous hamartomas of the lung are usually intraparenchymal and are
rarely located in the bronchial lumen. Mediastinal chondrohamartomas are
rare. A case is reported in which the close relationship with the esophagus
suggests that this tumor is a choristoma rather than a hamartoma. To our
knowledge, such a theory has not been previously proposed.