ABSTRACT
A primary thoracic origin occurs only in 20% of neuroblastomas, and their classical presentation is mediastinal or cord compression. Skeletal metastases of neuroblastomas are characteristically multiple, and calvarial deposits usually show simultaneous involvement of orbit. Solitary metastases in neuroblastoma, is an unusual entity and its presentation as a large calvarial mass, especially from a thoracic primary, is rare. Furthermore, calvarial metastases are relatively uncommon in children compared to adults. We discuss the clinical, radiographic, CT features, and differential diagnosis of a large calvarial mass with sunray spiculation in a child, which was due to a solitary metastases from an occult thoracic neuroblastoma. The possibility of neuroblastoma presenting in this unique fashion and the importance of considering a chemosensitive tumor such as neuroblastoma in the differential diagnosis of a solitary calvarial mass in a child is highlighted by our report.
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Neuroblastoma/secondary , Skull Neoplasms/secondary , Thoracic Neoplasms/pathology , Child, Preschool , Humans , Male , Neuroblastoma/diagnostic imaging , Skull Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Thoracic Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedSubject(s)
Developing Countries , Hyperglycemia/congenital , Infant, Premature, Diseases/epidemiology , Birth Weight , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Gestational Age , Humans , Hyperglycemia/epidemiology , Hyperglycemia/etiology , India , Infant, Newborn , Infant, Premature, Diseases/etiology , Male , Prospective Studies , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
We describe the sonographic diagnosis of Ascaris-induced acute cholecystitis and pancreatitis in a 2-year-old girl. Abdominal sonography revealed a grossly distended gallbladder with a thick (0.5-cm) wall. The common bile duct was dilated to 0.6 cm without sludge or calculi. The pancreas was hypoechoic, with an enlarged, 3.3-cm pancreatic head. Sonography showed dilatation of the small- and large-bowel loops, with multiple roundworms in duodenal and colonic loops. Sonography has an important role not only in the diagnosis of this uncommon condition but also in the documentation of its unusual etiologic agent.