Pulmonary blastoma in a child: Report of a case

We describe herein the case of a 2-year-old girl found to have a pulmonary blastoma (PB). The child was admitted to our hospital with the chief compla ints of coughing and left-sided chest pain. On admission, a chest X-ray rev ealed a large mass in the left lung, which measured 10 cm in diameter. Comp uted tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a marginally and hete rogeneously enhanced tumor filling the left hemithorax. Pathologic findings of the fine-needle aspiration were suggestive of neuroblastoma. Subsequent ly, a left pneumonectomy with lymph node dissection was performed and histo pathological examination confirmed that the tumor was a PB (type III). Afte r the definitive diagnosis was made the patient received combination chemot herapy, and no evidence of recurrence has been seen in the 5 months since s urgery.