Primary lung and pleural malignancies in children: Imaging of a case series

Teerasak  Phewplung; Tanitha  Phruksahirun

Authors

Teerasak Phewplung Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, the Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand
Tanitha Phruksahirun Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok, Thailand

Keywords:

Children, malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer, lung tumor, pediatric, pleural malignancy

Abstract

Early diagnosis of primary lung and pleural malignancies is a challenge because it is extremely rare in children. The patient often presents with metastatic disease and non-neoplastic lesions. Clinical detection and imaging studies are nonspecific findings and may be indistinguishable from other lung malformations, resulting in a delay in diagnosis and treatment and an increase in tumor morbidity and mortality. We present four cases of children whose clinical presentation and initial imaging had suspicious abnormalities and were eventually revealed to be primary lung and pleural malignancies. The literature on primary lung and pleural malignancies is also briefly reviewed.

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