Profil e'pidemiologique des neuroblastomes re'troperitone'aux non metastatiques [a' propos de 20 cas]

ABSTRACT

Neuroblastoma occupies the second rank of child malignant tumors. It suffers diagnostic delay that makes these tumors surgically difficult if not surgical at all. Treatment remains essentially tumoral excision associated to chemotherapy. 20 cases were depisted at the children's hospital of Rabat during a twelve years period, 80% of which are classified in stage III Evolution is marked either by complete remission [6 cases], metastases [3 cases] or by a local recur of the tumor [2 cases]. Mortality in our series is 35%