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MR imaging findings of an atypical pulmonary hamartoma in a 12-year-old child

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We present the MR imaging findings in an atypical pulmonary hamartoma in a 12-year-old boy. CT showed no evidence of fat or calcifications in the tumour. It demonstrated peripheral rim enhancement on arterial-phase MR images due to a compressed respiratory epithelium, and progression to nearly homogeneous contrast enhancement on delayed-phase images. Small cystic spaces were identified on MR hydrographic and contrast-enhanced images formed by invaginating respiratory epithelium, a unique imaging finding in this condition.

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  1. Second Department of Radiology, General University Hospital Attikon, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1 Rimini Street, Athens, 124 62, Greece

    Efthymia Alexopoulou, Nikos Economopoulos & Nikolaos L. Kelekis

  2. Department of Allergology-Pulmonology, Penteli Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Kostas N. Priftis

  3. Pathology Department, Athens Medical Centre, Athens, Greece

    Alexia Tsigka

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Alexopoulou, E., Economopoulos, N., Priftis, K.N. et al. MR imaging findings of an atypical pulmonary hamartoma in a 12-year-old child. Pediatr Radiol 38, 1134–1137 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-008-0938-2

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