Thirteen-year-old child with a malignant chest tumor: clinicopathologic conference.
A case of pleuropulmonary blastoma in a 13-year-old child, exposed to the Chernobyl disaster while in-utero, is presented and discussed by both clinician and pathologist, in this traditional clinical-pathologic conference. The discussion includes the differential diagnoses of chest mass in children.
Steffensen
Thora S
TS
Department of Pathology, University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL 33606, USA.
Paidas
Charles N
CN
Nora
Frederick E
FE
Gilbert-Barness
Enid
E
D000293:Adolescent; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D018202:Pulmonary Blastoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed