What is a Hamartoma?

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What is a hamartoma? I know it is benign but then what is a hamartomatous polyp?

I believe a hamartoma is just a growth of local tissue. The word hamartoma is used to separate it from a "heterotopia" which is a growth of tissue in a place it doesn't belong.
 
i remember hearing goljan say that a hamartoma is an overgrowth of local/native tissue (peutz-jeghers)

and a heterotopic rest is stuff at where it's not suppose to be (gastric stuff in mickel's diverticulum)
 
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