DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid cancer in childhood and the most common cancer in infancy, with an annual incidence of about 650 new cases per year in the US. Close to 50 percent of neuroblastoma cases occur in children younger than two years old. It is a neuroendocrine tumor, arising from any neural crest element of the sympathetic nervous system or SNS. It most frequently originates in one of the adrenal glands, but can also develop in nerve tissues in the neck, chest, abdomen, or pelvis. Neuroblastoma is one of the few human malignancies known to demonstrate spontaneous regression from an undifferentiated state to a completely benign cellular appearance...
Neuroblastoma - List of case studies
- Treatments
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Anterior resection of the rectum Anti Neuroblastoma antibodies Anti aggregating agent Anti coagulation ...
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma
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vomiting in left orbital lesion, suspecting a metastatic neuroblastoma. His eye examination revealed exophthalmus of the eye with ... rectus. His biopsies were indicative of stroma-poor neuroblastoma. After the diagnosis of Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, he began chemotherapy treatment according to NB-AR-O1/ESIOP ...
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma – additional opinion
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vomiting in left orbital lesion, suspecting a metastatic neuroblastoma. His eye examination revealed exophthalmus of the eye with ... rectus. His biopsies were indicative of stroma-poor neuroblastoma. After the diagnosis of Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, he began chemotherapy treatment according to NB-AR-O1/ESIOP ...