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Pleuropulmonary blastoma with a large embolic cerebral infarct
Anne P A Tan Kendrick1, Ganesh Krishnamurthy, V T Joseph
1Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 229899, Republic of Singapore. annetan@kkh.com.sg
Pediatric Radiology
|April 25, 2003
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.