Pulmonary blastoma: a rare childhood malignancy
| Autor: | H Isaacs, M Weller, M O Senac, Beverly P. Wood |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms Lung business.industry Radiography Respiratory disease Childhood malignancy Infant Neoplasms Germ Cell and Embryonal medicine.disease Pulmonary Blastoma medicine.anatomical_structure El Niño Child Preschool medicine Recurrent disease Blastoma Humans Female Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging business |
| Zdroj: | Radiology. 179:743-746 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| DOI: | 10.1148/radiology.179.3.1851314 |
| Popis: | Pulmonary blastoma is a rare primary malignancy of the lung, with few cases reported in children. The tumor consists of mesenchymal and epithelial components resembling the fetal lung. Seven children (aged 18 months to 5 years) with pulmonary blastoma were studied. The pulmonary radiographic patterns seen were a large, space-occupying solid mass with opacification of the hemithorax and preexisting cystic disease with a small solid tumor component. Computed tomographic images showed a low-attenuation mass with whorls of high-attenuation solid tissue. Four of the seven patients died within 2 years despite surgery and therapy; of the three surviving patients, one has recurrent disease. |
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