Pleuropulmonary blastoma in a 3-year-old male child with recurrence in less than two months time
Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare childhood neoplasm accounting for less than one percent of all primary malignant lung tumours of children less than six years of age. Meta - stasis to central nervous system, orbit and iris, bone, contralateral lung and rarely adrenalglands, liver, kidney and pancr...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Chest Disease Reports 2012-05, Vol.2 (1), p.9-e9 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare childhood neoplasm accounting for less than one percent of all primary malignant lung tumours of children less than six years of age. Meta - stasis to central nervous system, orbit and iris, bone, contralateral lung and rarely adrenalglands, liver, kidney and pancreas has been described. We present a case of pleuropulmonary blastoma in a 3-year-old child who had a recurrence in less than three months, after surgical resection. |
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ISSN: | 2039-4764 2039-4772 |
DOI: | 10.4081/cdr.2012.e9 |