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NUNEZ MORENO, Leonor  y  ESTRADA SANTANA, Antonio Carlos. Presentation of one Patient of Four Month of Age with a Suprarrenal Neuroblastoma. ccm [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.3, pp.939-945. ISSN 1560-4381.

The neuroblastoma is a kind of cancer in infants that is commonly diagnosed in the first year of age. These tumors, caused by the neural crest are located in the adrenal glands or at extrarrenal area, having clinical and biological characteristics snoopers existing from cases with spontaneous remission to other ones with tumoral progression, scarce therapeutic response and the patient's death. A four -months-old female patient admitted at the Pediatric Hospital of Holguin referred from the patients´ health area. A solid mass of 38 x 36 mm with very well delimitated borders in the superior side of the left kidney was observed in the ultrasonography; the lab tests were negative. Resection of the tumor with adequate post-surgical evolution was performed. The biopsy informed suprarenal left-hand neuroblastoma, undiferenced, of poor estroma and unfavorable histology of 5 x 4 cm of diameter measures and infiltrates some places of the capsule.

Palabras clave : neuroblastoma; suprarenal neuroblastoma; infant.

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