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
Hauptverfasser: Lone, Reyaz Ahmad, Wani, Mohd Lateef, Wani, Shadab Nabi, Ahangar, Abdul Gani, Nizami, Furqan, Hussain, Zahur, Bhat, Mubasher Ahmad, Ganie, Farooq Ahmad, Wani, Nasir-ud-din
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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.
ISSN:2039-4764
2039-4772
DOI:10.4081/cdr.2012.e9