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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2011; 32(04): 223-226
DOI: 10.4103/0971-5851.95146
CASE REPORT

Primary pulmonary neoplasms in children: A report of five cases

Authors

  • Subhalakshmi Sengupta

    Department of Pathology, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India

  • Uttara Chatterjee

    Department of Pathology, IPGME & R, 244 AJC Bose Road, Kolkata, India

  • Ranjana Bandyopadhyay

    Department of Pathology, Medical College, Kolkata, India

  • Kuntal Bhowmick

    Department of Pediatric Surgery, Park Children′s Center for Treatment and Research, 4 Gorky Terrace, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

  • Sugata Banerjee

    Department of Pediatric Surgery, Park Children′s Center for Treatment and Research, 4 Gorky Terrace, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Abstract

Primary pulmonary neoplasms are uncommon in children and represent a wide spectrum of pathology from benign to malignant. They are quite different in their histopathologic distribution from that of adults. This study was done to analyze the histopathologic spectrum of primary lung tumors in children. All the resected specimens of lung in children over a period of 5 years were studied and only the cases of primary pulmonary neoplasms were further analyzed. There were two cases of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. The patients were boys aged 10 and 12 years, respectively. One case of bronchial carcinoid was diagnosed in a boy of 12 years. There were one case each of pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) in a girl of 9 years and pulmonary blastoma (PB) in a girl of 2 years of age. In our study, the two cases of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor had excellent prognosis. However, the cases of PPB and PB were both associated with poor clinical outcome, whereas the case of bronchial carcinoid has been doing well on follow-up.

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Children - primary - pulmonary neoplasms


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Article published online:
06 August 2021

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