Open AccessPosterior mediastinal ganglioneuroblastoma in an adolescent: A case report and review
Author(s) -
Sekiguchi Nodoka,
Noguchi Takuro,
Fukushima Toshirou,
Kobayashi Takashi,
Ozawa Takesumi,
Sato Yoshinori,
Takeda Tetsu,
Yoshida Kazuo,
Koizumi Tomonobu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
thoracic cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1759-7714
pISSN - 1759-7706
DOI - 10.1111/1759-7714.13277
Subject(s) - ganglioneuroblastoma , medicine , lumbar , vertebra , radiography , mediastinal mass , mediastinal tumor , surgery , radiology , ganglioneuroma , mediastinum , neuroblastoma , genetics , biology , cell culture
Ganglioneuroblastoma is an uncommon malignant tumor of the sympathetic nervous system, which is considered a disease of children with the majority of cases in patients less than four years old and it rarely occurs in adults. We encountered a very unusual case of a posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroblastoma that developed in a 17‐year‐old male adolescent who underwent successful excision of the mediastinal mass and remained stable postoperatively. However, he developed lumbago one year after the surgery. Radiographic findings revealed osteolytic lesions in the lumbar vertebra and histological analysis confirmed bone metastasis of ganglioneuroblastoma. Here, we report the clinical course and present a review of the literature regarding adolescent and adult onset mediastinal ganglioneuroblastoma.