A rare primary pulmonary tumor of childhood

Turk J Pediatr. 2002 Apr-Jun;44(2):156-9.

Abstract

Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is known to be the pulmonary blastoma of childhood. It has a range of macroscopic and microscopic features which appear to correlate with eventual prognosis. Type 1, presenting as a multicystic lesion, occurs at an earlier age and has a more favorable prognosis than other types. The presented case of type 1 PPB had a microscopic focus of rhabdomyosarcoma. Although this patient was disease-free one year after the initial diagnosis without chemotherapy, he presented at 14 months with local dissemination and cardiac metastasis, revealing the inevitable chemo-radiotherapy need in PPB.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child, Preschool
  • Cysts / diagnosis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Lung Neoplasms / complications
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Male
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / diagnosis*
  • Pleural Neoplasms / complications
  • Pleural Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Pulmonary Blastoma / complications
  • Pulmonary Blastoma / diagnosis*
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma, Embryonal / complications
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma, Embryonal / diagnosis*
  • Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed