[Videothorascocopic: approach in thoracic inlet of neurogenic mediastinal tumor in pediatric age].
We present a 4 year-old patient with precedent of pneumonia and showing an increase of X-ray density in the superior mediastinal. After a year of follow-up and the presence of irritating cough, it is decided to perform studies of image (CT), being diagnosed of a mass in the region of the thoracic inlet which affects up to D4. Video-assisted thoracic surgery is decided and the mass is entirely removed, being the result of the pathological study to ganglioneuroma. Eight months later from, the patient is asymptomatic and without relapse according to the image methods which were carried out.
Luque Mialdea
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Servicio de Cirugía Pediátrica, Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo. rluque@sescam.jccm.es
Martín-Crespo
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R
Díaz
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L
Borrego
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R
Zamora
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M
Uridobro
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B
Carrero
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C
Moreno
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L
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000601:surgery*; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted