Pulmonary Atypical Carcinoid Tumor in a 15-Year-Old Girl: a Case Report and Review of the Literature

Primary pulmonary neoplasms in children are very rare, and because of their rarity, delays in diagnosis and treatment are common. Bronchial typical carcinoid accounts for 80% of primary malignant tumors, but, there are less than 40 proven cases in children reported in literature. Atypical carcinoids...

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Autores principales: Geramizadeh, Bita, Reza Foroutan, Hamid, Shokripour, Mansoureh, Reza Dehghanian, Amir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3804820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179657
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2013.e45
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Sumario:Primary pulmonary neoplasms in children are very rare, and because of their rarity, delays in diagnosis and treatment are common. Bronchial typical carcinoid accounts for 80% of primary malignant tumors, but, there are less than 40 proven cases in children reported in literature. Atypical carcinoids (AC) are the least common type of pulmonary carcinoids among children and to the best of our knowledge less than 10 cases have been reported in the English literature so far. Herein we present an extremely rare case of AC in a 15-year-old child and review the previously reported and published cases of pulmonary AC in pediatric age group.

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