Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Pleuropulmonary blastoma with a large embolic cerebral infarct

  • Case Report
  • Published:
Pediatric Radiology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

We report on a 3-year-old girl who developed a large embolic cerebral infarct 1 day after an uneventful thoracotomy to remove a large pleuropulmonary blastoma. The tumour had encased the heart and great vessels and ruptured into the left hemithorax. Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare, but unique, primary thoracic neoplasm in young children and, to our knowledge, the development of a secondary large embolic cerebral infarct is also uncommon and has not been reported in this tumour.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Perdikogianni C, Stiakaki E, Danilatou V, et al (2001) Pleuropulmonary blastoma: an aggressive intrathoracic neoplasm of childhood. Pediatr Hematol Oncol 18:259–266

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Priest JR, McDermott MB, Bhatia S, et al (1997) Pleuropulmonary blastoma: a clinicopathologic study of 50 cases. Cancer 80:147–161

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Vargas SO, Nose V, Fletcher JA, et al (2001) Gains of chromosome 8 are confined to mesenchymal components in pleuropulmonary blastoma. Pediatr Dev Pathol 4:434–445

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Imaizumi K, Murate T, Ohno J, et al (1995) Cerebral infarction due to spontaneous tumor embolus from lung cancer. Respiration 62:155–156

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. O'Neill BP, Dinapoli RP, Okazaki H (1987) Cerebral infarction as a result of tumor emboli. Cancer 60:90–95

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 229899

    Anne P. A. Tan Kendrick & Ganesh Krishnamurthy

  2. Department of Paediatric Surgery, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore

    V. T. Joseph

Authors
  1. Anne P. A. Tan Kendrick
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ganesh Krishnamurthy
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. V. T. Joseph
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Anne P. A. Tan Kendrick.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Tan Kendrick, A.P.A., Krishnamurthy, G. & Joseph, V.T. Pleuropulmonary blastoma with a large embolic cerebral infarct. Pediatr Radiol 33, 506–508 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-003-0926-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-003-0926-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation