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Surgical treatment of tracheal hamartoma
A I Taştepe1, A Kuzucu, S Demircan
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Atatürk Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Centre, Ankara, Turkey.
Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal : SCJ
|November 5, 1998
Abstract:
Tracheal hamartoma is a rare tumor and difficult to diagnose. A case is presented in which tracheal hamartoma was misdiagnosed and treated for four years as asthma. The tumor was curatively excised via posterolateral thoracotomy.