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Pleuropulmonary Blastoma: A Single-center Case Series of 6 Patients.
Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology - 1 Nov 2017
Pierce Janie M, LaCroix Priscilla, Heym Kenneth, Bowman William P, Margraf Linda, Iglesias Jose, Ray Anish
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Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a rare malignancy of childhood which when left untreated often shows pathologic progression resulting in a more aggressive neoplasm with an increasingly poor prognosis. Because of this it is important to diagnose and initiate treatment early. However, early stage PPB can appear as a cystic lung lesion on imaging and can be easily misdiagnosed given the rarity of the malignancy....
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