Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management

Pulmonary blastoma is a rare primary lung neoplasm, in that monophasic variety is far too rare. There are no specific clinical features seen for pulmonary blastoma; computed tomography and histopathology are diagnostic. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice; however, adjuvant chemotherapy and...

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Main Authors: Mistry, Jitendra H, Pawar, Sumita B, Mehta, Harshad, Popov, Aron Frederik, Mohite, Prashant Nanasaheb
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685585/
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spelling pubmed-36855852013-06-19 Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management Mistry, Jitendra H Pawar, Sumita B Mehta, Harshad Popov, Aron Frederik Mohite, Prashant Nanasaheb Case Report Pulmonary blastoma is a rare primary lung neoplasm, in that monophasic variety is far too rare. There are no specific clinical features seen for pulmonary blastoma; computed tomography and histopathology are diagnostic. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice; however, adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy may be required in large and aggressive tumors. BioMed Central 2013-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3685585/ /pubmed/23758909 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-144 Text en Copyright © 2013 Mistry et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Mistry, Jitendra H
Pawar, Sumita B
Mehta, Harshad
Popov, Aron Frederik
Mohite, Prashant Nanasaheb
spellingShingle Mistry, Jitendra H
Pawar, Sumita B
Mehta, Harshad
Popov, Aron Frederik
Mohite, Prashant Nanasaheb
Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management
author_facet Mistry, Jitendra H
Pawar, Sumita B
Mehta, Harshad
Popov, Aron Frederik
Mohite, Prashant Nanasaheb
author_sort Mistry, Jitendra H
title Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management
title_short Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management
title_full Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management
title_fullStr Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management
title_full_unstemmed Primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management
title_sort primary pulmonary blastoma of monophasic variety- diagnosis and management
description Pulmonary blastoma is a rare primary lung neoplasm, in that monophasic variety is far too rare. There are no specific clinical features seen for pulmonary blastoma; computed tomography and histopathology are diagnostic. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice; however, adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy may be required in large and aggressive tumors.
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2013
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685585/
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