What is brain hamartoma

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Brain hamartoma is not a kind of true tumor, it is a tumor like deformity caused by the wrong combination and arrangement of body organs in the process of normal development. Bring discomfort to patients. Now let's talk about what brain hamartoma is.

What is brain hamartoma

First, 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.

Second, hamartomas are complex in composition, most of them are tumor like malformations formed by abnormal development of normal tissues, and a few belong to mesenchymal tumors. Fat and calcification are the characteristics of most hamartomas. Explosive rice pattern calcification is common in pulmonary hamartomas, and nodular sclerosis is found in 20% of renal hamartomas.

Third: hamartoma is a kind of solid space occupying lesion, which is an autosomal dominant genetic disease (renal angiomyolipoma, also known as renal angiomyolipoma). It belongs to a kind of lipoma, which is composed of thick walled blood vessels, smooth muscle and mature adipose tissue, and can be single or multiple. Under normal circumstances, B-ultrasound and CT examination of hamartoma has a high localization and qualitative diagnosis rate.

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Patients with brain hamartoma can be treated symptomatically according to the size, growth rate and growth site of hamartoma. For patients with mild condition, conservative treatment can be adopted. Patients with severe disease should also take surgical methods for resection.