[Malignant transformation in multiple eccrine spiradenoma].

Development of a poorly differentiated eccrine carcinoma was observed in a 6-year-old woman. She had been operated on many times during 20 years for some tens of classical as well as less usual forms of eccrine spiradenomas, e.g.

[Congenital neuroblastomas].

A group of 2,576 autopsies of children of the age of 0 to 15 years (made between 1978 and 1987) comprised 14 congenital (neonatal) tumours (among 93 tumorous lesions). Teratomas were the most frequent congenital tumours followed by neuroblastomas (4 and 3 cases). Neuroblastomas grew from cervical and thoracoabdominal sympathicus and from the right adrenal medulla.

[Tumors of the thyroid gland in childhood--study of biopsy material].

A group of 29 biopsies from resected thyroid gland was represented by 5 boys and 24 girls of the age under 15 years; the mean age was 12,7 years. There were 7 cases of colloid adenoma, 5 of follicular adenoma, 5 of atypical adenoma and 5 of papillary carcinoma among them. A basedowian goiter was verified in 4 cases, Hashimoto-type thyroiditis was found once, thyroid gland was lacking twice.