title: A five-week-old girl with inspiratory stridor due to infantile hemangiopericytoma.
abstract: A 5-week-old girl with inspiratory stridor is presented. No immediate cause of the stridor was found, but eventually a diagnosis of infantile hemangiopericytoma located in the rhinopharynx was made. After surgery all respiratory symptoms disappeared.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Infantile hemangiopericytoma is a rare tumour of infancy and a very rare cause of inspiratory stridor in this age group. The mainstay of treatment is surgery. The overall prognosis is favourable but because of the unpredictable nature of the tumour, long-term follow-up is recommended.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Herning Hospital, Gl. Landelvej, 61 7400, Herning, Denmark. dr.jonas@hansen.mail.dk
authors.forename: Jonas K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: Flemming Brandt
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Soerensen
authors.forename: Mogens Fjord
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Christensen
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006393:Hemangiopericytoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology