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An interesting cause of chronic abdominal pain in a child
Jagadeesh Menon1, Aditi Kumar1, Kim Vaiphei2
1Senior Resident, Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Abstract:
We encountered an eight-year-old boy who was subsequently diagnosed with a retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma. In view of the rarity of this tumour and its presentation, we are prompted to report this case.
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