A Case Report of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma Presenting as Tension Pneumothorax

Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a very rare, highly aggressive, and malignant tumor that originates from either lungs or pleura. It occurs mainly in children aged <5 or 6 years. It has poor prognosis with three different subtypes: cystic (type I), combined cystic and solid (type II), and solid...

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Autores principales: Addanki, Archana, Chaitanya, Krishna, Bartakke, Sandip, Sethuratnam, Srividya
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469342
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.203515
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author Addanki, Archana
Chaitanya, Krishna
Bartakke, Sandip
Sethuratnam, Srividya
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description Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a very rare, highly aggressive, and malignant tumor that originates from either lungs or pleura. It occurs mainly in children aged <5 or 6 years. It has poor prognosis with three different subtypes: cystic (type I), combined cystic and solid (type II), and solid (type III). PPB is treated with aggressive multimodal therapies including surgery and chemotherapy. We present a case of PPB in a 3-year-old girl who presented with tension pneumothorax.
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spelling pubmed-53981122017-05-03 A Case Report of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma Presenting as Tension Pneumothorax Addanki, Archana Chaitanya, Krishna Bartakke, Sandip Sethuratnam, Srividya Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Practitioner Section Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a very rare, highly aggressive, and malignant tumor that originates from either lungs or pleura. It occurs mainly in children aged <5 or 6 years. It has poor prognosis with three different subtypes: cystic (type I), combined cystic and solid (type II), and solid (type III). PPB is treated with aggressive multimodal therapies including surgery and chemotherapy. We present a case of PPB in a 3-year-old girl who presented with tension pneumothorax. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5398112/ /pubmed/28469342 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.203515 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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A Case Report of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma Presenting as Tension Pneumothorax
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