[Therapeutic approach to pulmonary hamartoma patients]

Hamartoma is one of the most common benign tumour of the lung. The authors report their results of the surgical treatment of 17 patients with lung hamartoma. Twelve of them underwent open thoracotomy and 5 video-assisted thoracoscopy. Lobectomy was performed in 6 patients, segmentectomy in 3 and patients atypical lung resection in 8. All of the patients did not have complications.