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Pulmonary cysts in early childhood and the risk of malignancy.
Pediatric pulmonology - 1 Jan 2009
Priest John R, Williams Gretchen M, Hill D Ashley, Dehner Louis P, Jaffé Adam
Abstract excerpt
Surgery for congenital and early childhood lung cysts is often dictated by symptoms such as respiratory distress, infection or pneumothorax. Asymptomatic cysts present a therapeutic dilemma: surgical intervention and "conservative" observation have advocates. The risk of malignancy in such cysts is considered by some an indication for surgical intervention and is reviewed in this paper. Pleuropulmonary blastoma...
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