Yamashita Suguru, Mun Mingyon, Kono Tadasu
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, 2-2-2 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8470, Japan.
Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 Jan;58(1):30-2. doi: 10.1007/s11748-009-0464-7. Epub 2010 Jan 9.
We recommend thoracoscopic enucleation with the aid of a video-assisted thoracic surgery marker to treat pulmonary hamartoma, even when it stays in the center of pulmonary lobe. We report how we were able to enucleate a pulmonary hamartoma safely and manage the patient during hospitalization.