ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE-SECRETING GANGLIONEUROBLASTOMA ASSOCIATEDWITH OPSOMYOCLONIC ENCEPHALOPATHY - A CASE-REPORT WITH IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL STUDY

Authors
CLERICO A TENORE A BARTOLOZZI S REMOTTI D RUCO L DOMINICI C PROPERZI E CASTELLO MA
Citation
A. Clerico et al., ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE-SECRETING GANGLIONEUROBLASTOMA ASSOCIATEDWITH OPSOMYOCLONIC ENCEPHALOPATHY - A CASE-REPORT WITH IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL STUDY, Medical and pediatric oncology, 21(9), 1993, pp. 690-694
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology,Pediatrics
Journal title
Medical and pediatric oncology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00981532
Volume
21
Issue
9
Year of publication
1993
Pages
690 - 694
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-1532(1993)21:9<690:AHGA>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
This report describes a case of a 3-year-old female with Cushing's syn drome associated with ganglioneuroblastoma and opsomyoclonic encephalo pathy. Immunohistochemistry showed the tumor to be adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting. At autopsy, a cerebellar degenerative lesion was a lso demonstrated. (C) 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.