Wednesday, April 25, 2012

What is hamartoma???

Hamartano means i miss or fault or misfire. From here has been derived the word hamartoma which infact is a faulty growth. Hamartoma is a benign mass of mature specialized tissue or tissue indigenous to that particular site arranged in a disorganized manner due to aberrant differentiation. ExAmples are haemangioma, lymphangioma, AVM and neural malformation.

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