Diagnosis and management of fetal neuroblastoma.

Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol

Division of Pediatric Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

Published: April 1994

At 36 weeks' gestation, in a 30-year-old patient, routine prenatal ultrasound examination revealed a cystic mass in the left adrenal gland. The pregnancy was uneventful, and at delivery the infant had a palpable left flank mass confirmed by ultrasound and computed tomography scan. There were no metastases. On the second day of life, a 5 cm cystic stage-I neuroblastoma was removed by adrenalectomy. The infant had an uneventful recovery, required no further treatment, and remains free of disease 26 months later.

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