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Query: UMLS:C0027819 (neuroblastoma)
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Seven cases of cervical neurogenic tumor presented in an almost identical manner roentgenographically; a polypoid extrapleural mass at the lung apex. The association of neuroblastoma with Horner syndrome and heterochromia of the irides is mentioned. Characteristic roentgen appearance should be appreciated due to good prognosis of cervical neuroblastoma with prompt therapy.
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PMID:Cervical neurogenic tumors presenting as thoracic apical masses in infants and children. 26 6

Horner syndrome may be caused by a neuroblastoma involving the cervical sympathetic nervous system. A two-year-old girl presented with Horner syndrome and a discrete, distant neuroblastoma, suggesting that these two conditions represent a more widespread dysgenesis of the sympathetic nervous system.
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PMID:Congenital Horner syndrome associated with non-cervical neuroblastoma. 151 96

A rare case of congenital neuroblastoma of the neck associated with complete Horner syndrome and respiratory distress is described. The case was successfully treated by total excision secondary to chemotherapy. Horner syndrome was of value for early diagnosis of this lesion.
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PMID:Congenital cervical neuroblastoma associated with Horner syndrome. 324 95

The clinical manifestations of 253 neuroblastoma cases in childhood, treated in Denmark from 1943 to 1980, were reviewed. Most striking was the vagueness of symptoms in the majority of patients, only a few of whom exhibited the symptoms strongly suggestive of a neuroblastoma (i.e. the Horner syndrome, the watery diarrhoea syndrome, the dancing eye syndrome). The vagueness of the symptoms might have led to fatal procrastination of the diagnosis. The diagnostic delay has, however, no independent prognostic significance for survival in our patients (p = 0.09). The maximal tumour spread was recorded for all 253 patients, and the distribution of metastases was in accordance with the "soil-seed" hypothesis. The tumour spreads with equal frequency by local growth, by lymphatic vessels to distant lymph nodes, and by blood to bone. Only in widely disseminated tumours are metastases to the lungs, the meninges, the brain, and the reproductive organs seen to occur. Eighty-five percent of the patients, for whom data were available, excreted VMA above the normal value for their age, and 43% excreted Norepinephrine + Epinephrine (N + E) above normal levels. The excretion of both VMA and N + E was significantly correlated to stage, and thus to prognosis. Neither the level of VMA excretion nor the level of N + E had any bearing on the survival when age and stage were adjusted for. Serial VMA and N + E determinations show that patients with normal values for these parameters had significantly better prognosis than patients with elevated values during the first, second, third and fourth trimesters after the initiation of treatment. Increasing values in the individual patient were associated with a poor prognosis. We found no correlation between the initial leucocyte count and survival when age and stage were adjusted for.
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PMID:Signs, symptoms, metastatic spread and metabolic behavior of neuroblastomas treated in Denmark during the period 1943-1980. 363 7

Cervical neuroblastoma is relatively rare and shows very good prognosis. We reported a case of surgically resected cervico-mediastinal neuroblastoma. A 7-month-old boy was pointed out to have Horner syndrome (right ptosis and anhidrosis) and an abnormal shadow at right cervico-mediastinum on chest X-ray film during his stay in another hospital because of acute bronchitis. On examination after admission in our hospital, 3 x 4 cm size mass was palpated at the right neck and urine VMA and HVA level were elevated. The close examination demonstrated no sign of tumor in any other organ and tissue, which suggested that the tumor was cervical origin. 9 x 5, 5 x 3 cm tumor was almost removed and patient received chemotherapy. He is now free from disease at 1 year after operation.
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PMID:[Experience with a operated cervico-mediastinal neuroblastoma in infant]. 830 10

Cervical neuroblastoma, a disease primarily of infants, has a favorable prognosis. Eleven patients are reported. Clinical presentations (other than mass) included stridor and swallowing problems. Masses when felt were commonly mistaken for infectious adenitis. Imaging studies (US, CT, MRI) showed solid masses with vascular displacement and narrowing; intraspinal extension was absent though extension into the adjacent sites of mediastinum and skull occurred. Horner syndrome was seen in five patients with accompanying heterochromia iridis in one. Five tumors had calcification. A high index of suspicion will lead to biopsy and less delay in diagnosis once a mass is felt or imaged.
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PMID:Cervical neuroblastoma in eleven infants--a tumor with favorable prognosis. Clinical and radiologic (US, CT, MRI) findings. 841 48

A 5-month-old boy presented with superior mediastinal syndrome due to a large, unresectable cervico-mediastinal neuroblastoma. He had an unusual constellation of findings not previously reported in neuroblastoma: Horner syndrome, phrenic nerve palsy, and palsy of the ipsilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve. This constellation of findings in adult malignancies is termed the Rowland-Payne syndrome. The child required prolonged mechanical ventilation but responded to chemotherapy and is now free of tumor and completely recovered.
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PMID:Superior mediastinal syndrome with Rowland-Payne syndrome: an unusual presentation of cervico-mediastinal neuroblastoma. 1550 96

Opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia syndrome (OMA) in children is most commonly associated with occult neuroblastoma (NB). Although children with OMA and NB have decreased mortality, they suffer from increased neurologic morbidity. The pathogenesis of OMA in NB is not well understood, but current research and treatments support an immune-mediated process. The authors describe an unusual presentation of OMA occurring following 6 months of chemotherapy in a child with stage 4S NB who presented with partial Horner syndrome. Histopathologic examination of his primary cervical tumor showed NB maturation, which may have played a role in precipitating OMA syndrome. Further study of unusual cases of OMA in NB may provide better understanding of the syndrome and additional treatment options for these children.
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PMID:Late presentation of opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia syndrome in a child with stage 4S neuroblastoma. 1595 91

Horner syndrome can be caused by a variety of etiologies that interrupt the sympathetic innervation of the eye, including but not limited to central mass lesions. Recently, it has been debated whether neuroimaging has a place in the diagnostic algorithm of isolated pediatric Horner syndrome given the low incidence of neuroblastoma. We present a case of a 19-month-old girl with an isolated Horner syndrome, likely caused by a lower cervical syrinx, that was diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging.
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PMID:Isolated Horner syndrome and syringomyelia in a child. 2323 55

A 5-year-old patient suffered Horner syndrome, which was caused by a neuroblastoma in the left apex of the lung shown on the initial I-MIBG scan. After the surgical resection and external radiation to the left lung field, a follow-up I-MIBG scan revealed significantly less MIBG activity in the left upper chest compared to the contralateral right upper chest.
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PMID:Asymmetric thoracic metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) activity due to prior radiation therapy. 2574 40


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