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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:691-693
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Case Reports

Multiple Central Endobronchial Chondroid Hamartoma

^a Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
^b Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
^c Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
^d Department of Pulmonology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Accepted for publication June 6, 2006.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Lim, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea 301-721. (Email: splim{at}cnu.ac.kr).

Benign neoplasm of the lung is rare, and pulmonary hamartoma is the most common form of benign neoplasm of the lung. Most pulmonary hamartomas are parenchymal hamartomas, and endobronchial hamartomas are very rare and usually occur as a single mass. We report a case of a 55-year-old man presenting with multiple endobronchial chondroid hamartomas that had not been confirmed preoperatively. The patient received bilobectomy, and the postoperative course was uneventful. There was no evidence of recurrence or complications during the 6-month follow-up period. Reports of multiple endobronchial chondroid hamartomas are rare in the literature, and the awareness of this form of benign disease is important in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary neoplasms.

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