Pleuropulmonary blastoma with a large embolic cerebral infarct.

作者信息

Tan Kendrick Anne P A, Krishnamurthy Ganesh, Joseph V T

机构信息

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 229899, Republic of Singapore.

出版信息

Pediatr Radiol. 2003 Jul;33(7):506-8. doi: 10.1007/s00247-003-0926-5. Epub 2003 Apr 24.

DOI:10.1007/s00247-003-0926-5

PMID:12712268

Abstract

We report on a 3-year-old girl who developed a large embolic cerebral infarct 1 day after an uneventful thoracotomy to remove a large pleuropulmonary blastoma. The tumour had encased the heart and great vessels and ruptured into the left hemithorax. Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare, but unique, primary thoracic neoplasm in young children and, to our knowledge, the development of a secondary large embolic cerebral infarct is also uncommon and has not been reported in this tumour.

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