Pleuropulmonary blastoma: A report of two cases

Ömer Faruk Demir

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.18215

Ömer Faruk Demir¹, Ömer Önal¹, Leyla Hasdıraz¹, Fahri Oğuzkaya¹, Olgun Kontaş², Ayşe Ülgey³

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey
²Department of Pathology, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey
³Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.18215

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Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare and aggressive childhood tumor of mesenchymal origin. It has a poor prognosis and mainly classified as cystic (type 1), mixed type (type 2), and solid (type 3). Herein, we present two cases of pleuropulmonary blastoma type 3 presenting with pneumothorax, a rare clinical presentation of pleuropulmonary blastoma, which was successfully treated with surgery.

Keywords : Pleuropulmonary blastoma, pneumothorax, thoracotomy

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