European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 7, 445-446, Copyright © 1993 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Endobronchial hamartoma resected by rigid bronchoscope
J Ortiz-Saracho, J Picher, S Garcia-Rull, SD Reboiras and I Perez
Department of Pneumology, Ramon y Cajal Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
Endobronchial hamartomas are not very common and they are usually
symptomatic because of bronchial obstruction. The diagnosis is made by
fiberoptic bronchoscopy of thoracotomy and there are several possibilities
of treatment but until now the most common has been surgical resection. We
report the case of a man with an endobronchial hamartoma who was diagnosed
by fiberoptic bronchoscopy and successfully treated by rigid bronchoscopy.