Multifocal ganglioneuroblastoma coexistent with total colonic aganglionosis.
Neuroblastoma and Hirschsprung's disease are considered aberrations of neural crest cell growth, migration, or differentiation. Their coexistence, however, is rare. We present the case of an only child with total colon Hirschsprung's disease diagnosed shortly after birth, who was found to have noncontiguous ganglioneuroblastomas without metastases at age 16 months. The spectrum of neural crest anomalies, long segment Hirschsprung's disease and multifocal neuroblastoma, in this child is unique and previously unreported.
Michna
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BA
Department of Surgery, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0001.
McWilliams
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NB
Krummel
T M
TM
Hartenberg
M A
MA
Salzberg
A M
AM
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D003106:Colon / Q000294:innervation; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000150:complications*; D006627:Hirschsprung Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D009197:Myenteric Plexus / Q000002:abnormalities; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary