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Metachronous pleuropulmonary blastoma in an adult patient with endometrial cancer: a case report

Pulmonary blastoma is a rare form of lung cancer with a reported incidence of 0.25–0.55 of primary pulmonary cancers. Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a common finding in children while it is rarely found in adults. In the past few years, the incidence of a second primary tumour has increased to 3....

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Autores principales: Bhalerao, Sagar, Adhav, Aditya, Gandhe, Sucheta, Nagarkar, Rajnish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6600430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31281664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omz056
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Sumario:Pulmonary blastoma is a rare form of lung cancer with a reported incidence of 0.25–0.55 of primary pulmonary cancers. Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a common finding in children while it is rarely found in adults. In the past few years, the incidence of a second primary tumour has increased to 3.5% followed by third primary tumour at 0.5% and fourth tumour at 0.3%. The clinical significance of diagnosing and distinguishing a secondary primary tumour is often challenging. As per our knowledge, this is the first case of metachronous PPB in an adult patient previously diagnosed with endometrial cancer.