What harm does hamartoma cause

What harm does hamartoma cause? It is normal to get sick. No matter how big or small the disease is, it will cause a certain degree of damage to our body, not to mention tumors. Hamartoma is a special form of tumor with complex components. Most of them are tumor-like deformities formed by abnormal development of normal tissues, and a few are mesenchymal tumors. So, what harm does hamartoma cause?

1. Hepatic Hamartoma: There are no symptoms in the early stage. In the late stage, a huge painless abdominal mass and the resulting compression symptoms may appear. The digestive tract manifests itself as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, constipation, etc. The mass presses the diaphragm upwards, which can cause dyspnea. In severe cases, it can cause respiratory distress or heart failure, and there are symptoms such as anemia and weight loss.

2. Pulmonary hamartoma: Patients may experience symptoms such as cough, sputum, hemoptysis, shortness of breath, chest pain, fever, etc. Hamartomas in the main bronchi, lobar bronchi, and especially in the carina area, present with symptoms earlier, often accompanied by wheezing, and may even cause severe dyspnea and cyanosis.

3. Renal Hamartoma: Some relatively large hamartomas may cause digestive discomfort due to compression of the duodenum, stomach and other organs. When a relatively large hamartoma suddenly ruptures, the patient may experience symptoms such as waist and abdominal pain and hematuria. Patients with severe hemorrhage may feel a mass in the abdomen and may even experience shock symptoms.

4. Hypothalamic hamartoma: It can manifest as specific epilepsy. Long-term seizures can lead to cognitive and behavioral disorders, and then develop into complex partial epilepsy, tonic epilepsy, tonic-clonic epilepsy and secondary generalized epilepsy. It can also manifest as cognitive dysfunction, such as hyperactivity, poor attention, delayed language development, poor learning ability and low IQ. In addition to the fact that the disease is a congenital brain development abnormality, it is often accompanied by poor intelligence, and it is also related to long-term frequent seizures of epilepsy.

There is no clear explanation for the harm of breast hamartoma. It is usually a single round, oval or oblate tumor with clear boundaries and soft texture. If it is surrounded by fibrous tissue, it will feel harder. According to literature reports, the size of the tumor is 1 to 20 cm, with good mobility and no adhesion to the surrounding area. It grows slowly and is asymptomatic, and patients often discover it accidentally.