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- Title
Concurrent Adrenal Neuroblastoma and Kawasaki Disease: A Report of a Rare Case.
- Authors
Alavi, Samin; Fahimzad, Alireza; Jadali, Farzaneh; Ghazizadeh, Farid; Rashidi, Armin
- Abstract
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology and a leading cause of acquired heart disease. It is assumed that there is an activation of the immune system by an infectious trigger in a genetically susceptible host. Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in young children. It mainly originates from primordial neural crest cells that generate the adrenalmedulla and sympathetic ganglia. A diagnosis of concurrent KD and neuroblastoma in a living child has been made in only one previous report. We report the second case and review the literature.
- Subjects
NEUROBLASTOMA; MUCOCUTANEOUS lymph node syndrome; VASCULITIS; ETIOLOGY of diseases; HEART diseases; GANGLIA; MEDICAL literature reviews
- Publication
Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2013, p1
- ISSN
2090-6803
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2013/931703