Cassady C, Winters W D
Children's Hospital and Medical Center and University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, CH-69, 4800 Sand Point Way, N. E., Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
Pediatr Radiol. 1997 Sep;27(9):758-9. doi: 10.1007/s002470050220.
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of childhood, with 40 % arising in the adrenal glands. Bilateral adrenal involvement from synchronous development or metastatic spread of the tumor is seen in less than 10 % of children with neuroblastoma [1]. Neuroblastoma rarely presents as a cystic suprarenal mass that is difficult to differentiate from adrenal hemorrhage, extralobar sequestration, or dilated upper-pole renal calyces. To our knowledge, bilateral cystic neuroblastoma has not been previously reported. We present a case of bilateral cystic adrenal neuroblastoma to demonstrate the imaging features of this unusual entity, and to expand the differential diagnosis of bilateral cystic suprarenal masses in an infant.
神经母细胞瘤是儿童最常见的恶性肿瘤之一,40%起源于肾上腺。在神经母细胞瘤患儿中,不到10%的患儿因肿瘤同步发展或转移扩散而出现双侧肾上腺受累[1]。神经母细胞瘤很少表现为囊性肾上腺肿块,难以与肾上腺出血、肺叶外隔离症或扩张的肾上极肾盏相鉴别。据我们所知,双侧囊性神经母细胞瘤此前尚未见报道。我们报告一例双侧囊性肾上腺神经母细胞瘤病例,以展示这一罕见实体的影像学特征,并扩大对婴儿双侧囊性肾上腺肿块的鉴别诊断。