Surgical Complications of Childhood Tumors

Most childhood tumors will first present to a physician; some tumors will present in an atypical manner and may mimic a surgical condition. The diagnosis may be missed if the surgeon is not aware of the possibility of cancer. A very great number of rare presentations of childhood cancer have been de...

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Autores principales: Suren Arul, G., Spicer, Richard D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122594/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29734-5_22
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description Most childhood tumors will first present to a physician; some tumors will present in an atypical manner and may mimic a surgical condition. The diagnosis may be missed if the surgeon is not aware of the possibility of cancer. A very great number of rare presentations of childhood cancer have been described in the literature. It is important that the surgeon who is not experienced in the management of childhood cancer is aware that an apparently benign condition could be a manifestation of an underlying malignancy [71, 83] (Table 22.1).
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spelling pubmed-71225942020-04-06 Surgical Complications of Childhood Tumors Suren Arul, G. Spicer, Richard D. The Surgery of Childhood Tumors Article Most childhood tumors will first present to a physician; some tumors will present in an atypical manner and may mimic a surgical condition. The diagnosis may be missed if the surgeon is not aware of the possibility of cancer. A very great number of rare presentations of childhood cancer have been described in the literature. It is important that the surgeon who is not experienced in the management of childhood cancer is aware that an apparently benign condition could be a manifestation of an underlying malignancy [71, 83] (Table 22.1). 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC7122594/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29734-5_22 Text en © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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