Primary lung tumors in children
Type III
pleuropulmonary blastoma in a 7-month-old female baby with impending respiratory failure: a case report. Computed tomography scanning of the thorax. Demonstrating the presence of an enormous mass, causing a tracheal displacement with complete collapse of the lung parenchyma (A) with structural alteration in the 6th right coastal arc, along the midaxillary line (B) better demonstrated by the three-dimensional reconstruction (C).
Pediatric primary lung tumors are rare in children however they must be distinguished from locally aggressive inflammatory conditions and benign disease.
Primary lung tumors in the neonates and infants include:
- pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB)
- infantile fibrosarcoma of the lung
- fetal lung interstitial tumor
- infantile pulmonary hemangioma
Primary lung tumors in older children include:
- inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs)
- pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors
- lung carcinomas of the salivary gland type
- recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
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