INTRATHORACIC NEUROBLASTOMA

Functionally Active Intrathoracic Neuroblastoma.

It is apparent that, under certain circumstances so far undefined, neuroblastomata may be associated with a secretion of pressor amines in sufficient amounts to cause significant symptoms. Mason, Hart-Mercer, Millar, Strang and Wynne (1957) reported an infant with an adrenaline secreting intrathoracic neuroblastoma which was successfully removed. The preoperative symptoms, sweating and pallor, ...

Neonatal intrathoracic neuroblastoma: unusual presentation with haemothorax

Thoracic neuroblastomas are rare in the neonatal period. They may be asymptomatic or cause respiratory distress. Congenital haemothorax present at birth, as the result of intravascular disseminated coagulopathy, is an uncommon initial presentation of intrathoracic neuroblastomas.

Congenital intrathoracic neuroblastoma presenting as persistent pulmonary hypertension in a newborn.

doi: 10.1007/s12519-011-0288-2 ©Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011. All rights reserved. A female infant, weighing 2740 g, was vaginally born at 42 weeks of gestation. The Apgar scores were 7 and 8 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively. After birth, the infant immediately developed respiratory distress, and required conventio...

Intrathoracic hibernoma.

loculated fat cells morphologically similar to the hibernating gland tissues found in animals was first recognized 95 years ago. It was subsequently termed “hibernoma.” In 1966, 38 cases had been recorded, 4 of which were intrathoracic. Thirty years later, approximately 100 cases had been reported, of which only 7 were intrathoracic. A recent review of the English literature reveals 13 intratho...

Bone Involvement in Neuroblastoma