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[A case of bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 7-year-old girl]
T Sakurada1, K Kusajima, A Watanabe
1Second Department of Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung presenting in childhood is extremely uncommon. A 7-year-old girl was referred to our hospital with complaint of persistent cough and abnormal shadow on the chest roentgenogram. Bronchoscopic biopsy revealed a bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma and a left pneumonectomy was performed. The histopathological examination revealed intermediate grade malignancy without any metastasis in mediastinal lymph nodes. She is now doing well without any evidence of recurrence 2 years after the operation.