An Unusual Case of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma in a Child with Jejunal Hamartomas
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An Unusual Case of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma in a Child with Jejunal Hamartomas
We report a rare case of 9-month-old girl who presented with a choking episode and was found to have an incidental finding of a lung cyst and iron deficiency anemia leading to the diagnosis of pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) and a jejunal hamartoma. Our patient is the eighth that has been reported with the association of PPB with jejunal hamartoma and the first one in the radiological literature...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Pediatrics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-6803,2090-6811
DOI: 10.1155/2013/140508