McLatchie G R, Young D G
Arch Dis Child. 1980 Dec;55(12):958-62. doi: 10.1136/adc.55.12.958.
In a retrospective study carried out at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, for the period 1952-79, 7 cases of primary thoracic neuroblastoma were identified. The average age at presentation was 2 years. Respiratory symptoms were the modes of presentation in 2 patients, neurological symptoms in 4, and urinary tract symptoms in 1 patient. Dilatation of the urinary tract was present in 2 cases, and a third had a normal urinary tract but previous infections. After a maximum of 27 years and a minimum of 20 months, 5 of the patients remain well. One child died as a direct result of her tumour, the other from an unrelated tumour 25 years after partial excision of his neuroblastoma. The better prognosis of primary thoracic neuroblastoma and the variability of presentation compared with neuroblastoma in other sites are stressed.
在格拉斯哥皇家儿童医院进行的一项针对1952年至1979年期间的回顾性研究中，共确诊了7例原发性胸段神经母细胞瘤。就诊时的平均年龄为2岁。2例患者以呼吸道症状为表现方式，4例为神经症状，1例为泌尿系统症状。2例存在泌尿系统扩张，第3例泌尿系统正常但既往有感染史。经过最长27年、最短20个月的随访，5例患者情况良好。1名儿童因肿瘤直接死亡，另1名儿童在神经母细胞瘤部分切除25年后死于无关肿瘤。强调了原发性胸段神经母细胞瘤相较于其他部位神经母细胞瘤更好的预后及表现的变异性。
