title: A giant retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma with intraspinal involvement: report of one case.
abstract: A 9-year-old girl was discovered to have had a huge retroperitoneal mass causing moderate hydronephrosis and anterior displacement of the right kidney and which was found on a renal ultrasonographic examination. A series of examinations including (1)IVP, (2) abdominal computed tomography, (3) MRI and(4) incisional biopsy revealed a giant dumb-bell shaped retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma with intraspinal involvement. Secondary scoliosis was also noticed. We successfully resected the huge ganglioneuroma of the right retroperitoneum in a two stage procedure: her postoperative course was uneventful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Municipal Women's and Children's Hospital, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Sheih
authors.forename: Y J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.forename: Y W
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000209:etiology*