Ganglioneuroma presenting with differentiated skeletal metastases. Report of a case.
The authors report the case of a child with retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma and cytodifferentiated skeletal metastases. The primary tumor was surgically resected, and the child is alive and well 2 years later without additional therapy. This rarely documented phenomenon can be explained by spontaneous cytomaturation within both primary and metastatic tumor.
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000473:pathology; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery