Owing to its rarity, however, there have been no recent large clinicopathologic studies of fibrous hamartoma of infancy. Our study, representing the cumulative experience from four institutions, was ...

A hamartoma is a noncancerous tumor made of an abnormal mixture of normal tissues and cells from the area in which it grows. Hamartomas sometimes disappear over time and show little to no symptoms.

Gross malformations have been well known for centuries, even millennia. However, it was not until 1904 that Albrecht coined the concept of hamartoma. In 1934, the concept entered the field of ...

A new study on the genetic causes of the PTEN Hamartoma Tumour Syndrome (PHTS) has found that inhibitors of the PI3ka pathway, commonly used as anticancer drugs, are also effective against this ...

Q: I spoke with a friend recently who said she was diagnosed with a hamartoma in her chest cavity. I corrected her and said she likely had a hematoma, but she was convinced she heard her doctor ...