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Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
The case of 38-month-old boy is being reported who was brought to the pediatrics clinic with fever, cough, hemoptysis, and breathing difficulty. Imaging studies revealed a right lower chest mass. Lobectomy and histopathological examination revealed it to be predominantly solid pleuropulmonary blasto...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25177506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/509086 |
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author | Khan, Amjad Ali El-Borai, Ahmed Kamal Alnoaiji, Mohammad |
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description | The case of 38-month-old boy is being reported who was brought to the pediatrics clinic with fever, cough, hemoptysis, and breathing difficulty. Imaging studies revealed a right lower chest mass. Lobectomy and histopathological examination revealed it to be predominantly solid pleuropulmonary blastoma type II. It is a rare pediatric pleuropulmonary tumor with aggressive behavior and tendency to spread to the brain. The case is being presented to make the general histopathologist aware of this rare entity and to highlight to the pediatric physicians/surgeons, radiologists, and histopathologists the fact that lung cysts in infants and young children should be evaluated seriously and sampled thoroughly to diagnose cases of type I pleuropulmonary blastoma which will progress over time to type II or type III tumors. Also the siblings and first degree relatives of the patient should be screened for associated pulmonary and extrapulmonary benign and malignant conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-41422982014-08-31 Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Khan, Amjad Ali El-Borai, Ahmed Kamal Alnoaiji, Mohammad Case Rep Pathol Case Report The case of 38-month-old boy is being reported who was brought to the pediatrics clinic with fever, cough, hemoptysis, and breathing difficulty. Imaging studies revealed a right lower chest mass. Lobectomy and histopathological examination revealed it to be predominantly solid pleuropulmonary blastoma type II. It is a rare pediatric pleuropulmonary tumor with aggressive behavior and tendency to spread to the brain. The case is being presented to make the general histopathologist aware of this rare entity and to highlight to the pediatric physicians/surgeons, radiologists, and histopathologists the fact that lung cysts in infants and young children should be evaluated seriously and sampled thoroughly to diagnose cases of type I pleuropulmonary blastoma which will progress over time to type II or type III tumors. Also the siblings and first degree relatives of the patient should be screened for associated pulmonary and extrapulmonary benign and malignant conditions. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4142298/ /pubmed/25177506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/509086 Text en Copyright © 2014 Amjad Ali Khan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Khan, Amjad Ali El-Borai, Ahmed Kamal Alnoaiji, Mohammad Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title | Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_full | Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_fullStr | Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_short | Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_sort | pleuropulmonary blastoma: a case report and review of the literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25177506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/509086 |
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