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Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management

Pulmonary blastoma is a rare primary lung neoplasm, in that monophasic variety is far too rare. There are no specific clinical features seen for pulmonary blastoma; computed tomography and histopathology are diagnostic. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice; however, adjuvant chemotherapy and...

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Autores principales: Mistry, Jitendra H, Pawar, Sumita B, Mehta, Harshad, Popov, Aron Frederik, Mohite, Prashant Nanasaheb
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23758909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-144
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Sumario:Pulmonary blastoma is a rare primary lung neoplasm, in that monophasic variety is far too rare. There are no specific clinical features seen for pulmonary blastoma; computed tomography and histopathology are diagnostic. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice; however, adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy may be required in large and aggressive tumors.