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Pitfalls in the diagnosis of paediatric tumours

2010-01-01

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Abstract The most important factor in terms of differential diagnosis of a new mass lesion in children is the child’s age. In infancy, for example, congenital masses and many benign tumours are relatively common. As children grow older, the likely tumours vary with time. Some tumours, such as rhabdomyosarcomas, occur throughout childhood but most malignancies have relatively specific ages when their frequency is g...

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Literature Corpus work: f250d0ec-3c94-5e36-82d7-b178aeca074e
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2010.9019
PMCID: PMC2967142

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