What is gastric hamartoma

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Gastric hamartoma generally occurs in women, with cough, fever and other manifestations, which need to be differentiated from other diseases. Let's take a look at what is called gastric hamartoma.

What is gastric hamartoma

Firstly, the term hamartoma was first proposed by Albrecht in 1904. Most scholars have always believed that hamartoma is not a true tumor, but a wrong combination and arrangement of normal tissues in organs. This kind of disordered changes in the number, structure or maturity of organs and tissues will grow slowly with the development of human body, with few malignant changes. Most of hamartomas are tumor like malformations formed by abnormal development of normal tissues, and a few are mesenchymal tumors.

Secondly, the age of onset was 30-60 years old, male was slightly more than female. Pulmonary hamartoma grows slowly and is mostly located in the peripheral part of the lung. It is usually asymptomatic and is often found in chest X-ray fluoroscopy. Symptomatic patients often show cough, expectoration, hemoptysis, shortness of breath, chest pain, fever and other symptoms.

Finally: most of pulmonary hamartomas are benign, and only 0.5% of them are malignant. Because it is difficult to differentiate this part from peripheral lung cancer, early operation is preferred.

matters needing attention

Hamartoma should be found and treated as early as possible, no matter whether it has symptoms or not. We should not let it develop arbitrarily. We should actively adjust personal eating habits, pay attention to personal hygiene, and avoid the recovery of the disease being affected.