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neuroblastoma

  • most common solid abdominal mass of infancy (12% of all perinatal neoplasms)
  • 3rd most common malignancy in infancy (after leukemia and CNS tumors)
  • 2nd most common tumor in children (Wilms more common in older kids)

location: anywhere within sympathetic neural chain
  • adrenal gland (36%): bilateral in 7-10%
  • extraadrenal in sympathetic chain (18%)
  • thorax and posterior mediastinum (14%)
  • neck (5%); pelvis (5%)
  • skull, olfactory bulb, cerebellum, cerebrum: (2%)
  • other sites (10%); unknown primary (10%)

metastasis: bone (60%); regional nodes (42%); liver (15%); intracranial (14%); lung (10%)

see also: Hutchinson, Pepper, and blueberry muffin syndromes

Yong H. Hahn, MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

Related CHORUS documents:
Wilms tumor
Ewing sarcoma
blueberry muffin sign
Pepper syndrome
adrenal cyst
Hutchinson syndrome

 

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