title: Thoracic neuroblastoma presenting as recurrent empyema.
abstract: Neuroblastoma is the most common intra-abdominal and extracranial solid tumour in children, accounting for 7%-8% of all childhood cancers. It is a malignant tumour of the autonomic nervous system derived from the neural crest. Most children with neuroblastoma have distant metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis. Pulmonary metastasis at the time of diagnosis is rare, and rarer is the presence of associated pleural effusion. We present the case of a child with recurrent empyema, who was diagnosed to have a thoracic neuroblastoma.
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India - Department of Paediatrics.
authors.forename: Rashmi Ranjan
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India - Department of Paediatrics.
authors.forename: Abdus
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sami
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India - Department of Paediatrics.
authors.forename: Rachna
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seth
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India - Department of Paediatrics.
authors.forename: Devki
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nandan
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India - Department of Paediatrics.
authors.forename: Sushil K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kabra
authors.affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India - Department of Pathology.
authors.forename: Vaishali
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Suri
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004653:Empyema / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012008:Recurrence; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed