Neonatal neuroblastoma presenting with respiratory distress.
We describe two patients to illustrate that neonatal respiratory distress can be associated with airway compression from an intrathoracic neuroblastoma. The clinical features can be either life-threatening from the time of birth or so mild as to escape detection in the immediate newborn period.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology