title: Ganglioneuroma: an 'incidentaloma' of childhood.
abstract: In adults clinically silent adrenal masses can be discovered incidentally in imaging studies. Most of these 'incidentalomas' are benign, non-functioning adenomas. In contradistinction, in infancy and childhood the most common adrenal mass is the neuroblastoma, a malignant neural crest tumour. Four children are described, each with a benign neural crest tumour - ganglioneuroma - incidentally discovered by conventional radiography or sonographic examination. Complete surgical excision resulted in total recovery of all the children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Soroka Medical Centre, Ben-Gurion University, P. O. Box 151, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schulman
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Laufer
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Barki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Philip
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Mares
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maor
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hertzanu
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D001706:Biopsy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D009432:Neural Crest / Q000473:pathology; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed