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DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924620
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Laser-Assisted Resection of a Giant Pulmonary Chondrohamartoma - A Case Report
Publication History
Received April 4, 2006
Publication Date:
05 April 2007 (online)
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Introduction
Chondromatous hamartoma represents one of the most frequently resected benign pulmonary lesions in thoracic surgery. The technique used for resection - enucleation, wedge resection and, in the case of a large lesion, an anatomical lung resection (segmentectomy, lobectomy) - is also well known [[1], [2], [3], [4]].
We present a case of resection of a giant chondromatous hamartoma with a diameter of 15 cm and weighing 1350 g using a new 1318 nm wavelength neodymium : yttrium-aluminium-garnet (Nd : YAG) laser system.
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MD, PhD, FETCS Arpad Pereszlenyi
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Center for Pneumology, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Coswig Specialized Hospital, affiliated to the Carl Gustav Carus University Dresden
Neucoswiger Straße 21
01640 Coswig/Dresden
Germany
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Email: dr.pereszlenyi@fachkrankenhaus-coswig.de