Surgical treatment of malignant mediastinal neurogenic tumors in children

Abstract

Surgical resection of localized malignant mediastinal neurogenic tumor in children showed good long-term survival, and salvage operations after chemotherapy showed acceptable long-term survival.

Thoracic neuroblastoma: a retrospective review of our institutional experience with comparison of the thoracoscopic and open approaches to resection

“…They found no differences in the incidence of complications between the open and thoracoscopic resection patients. Interestingly, the incidence of Horner's syndrome was 11% overall in our series (4/37) that is consistent with the reported incidence of 3% to 29% [4][5][6]15,16]. The incidence of Horner's syndrome is likely related to the location of the tumor in the superior cervical sympathetic chain ganglion and not the mode of resection.…”

Video-assisted thoracic surgery resection for pediatric mediastinal neurogenic tumors

“…Similarly to other studies, the most common complication after VATS removal of intrathoracic neurogenic tumor in our study was Horner syndrome, with an incidence that is consistent with previous reports (3% to 29%) [5,7,8,10,19]. The occurrence of Horner syndrome in the postoperative period is commonly linked to the location of intrathoracic neurogenic tumors, especially the upper thorax, near the sympathetic chain, rather than to the type of surgical resection [5].…”

Clinical manifestation of pediatric mediastinal tumors, a single center experience

“…[18] Evidence has shown that early surgical intervention to treat localized mediastinal neuroblastomas improves the associated overall survival rate. [19] Since patients with thoracic neuroblastomas tend to be younger than those with other mediastinal tumors, careful clinical evaluations, assessments, and treatments should be performed for these patients.…”