[Kystic pleuropulmonary blastoma fortuitly discovered in an infant].
Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare childhood intrathoracic neoplasm, associated with a poor outcome. We report the case of a 7 week-old boy with a pleuropulmonary blastoma classified as type I. Disease was discovered at a chest X-ray performed as a work-up for a benign acute viral bronchiolitis. The final diagnosis was brought by pathology: a bronchopulmonary malformation had not been ruled out by clinical, radiological and macroscopic findings. Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare childhood intrathoracic neoplasm, for which the poor outcome and tough diagnosis justify a surgical attitude when an intrathoracic bullous lesion is found in an infant.
David
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Unité de médecine infantile, CHU Timone-Enfants, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France.
Bosdure
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de Lagausie
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Rome
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A
Gorincour
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Chabrol
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Dubus
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D002648:Child; D015615:Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018202:Pulmonary Blastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012142:Respiratory Tract Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed