Giant pediatric intrathoracic ganglioneuroma: a case report and review of the literature

Buse Mine Konuk Balcı; Gökhan Kocaman; Mehmet Ali Sakallı; Bülent Mustafa Yenigün; Ayşegül Gürsoy Çoruh; Bilge Ayça Kırmızı; Aylin Heper; Serkan Enön

doi:10.26663/cts.2022.015

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Giant pediatric intrathoracic ganglioneuroma: a case report and review of the literature

Buse Mine Konuk Balcı¹,Gökhan Kocaman¹,Mehmet Ali Sakallı²,Bülent Mustafa Yenigün¹,Ayşegül Gürsoy Çoruh³,Bilge Ayça Kırmızı⁴,Aylin Heper⁴,Serkan Enön¹

Current Thoracic Surgery 2022;7(2):092-096. (29 July 2022)

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Turkey
²Department of Thoracic Surgery, Iskenderun State Hospital, Hatay, Turkey
³Department of Pathology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
⁴4Department of Radiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.26663/cts.2022.015

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Ganglioneuroma is an extremely rare (incidence 1/1,000,000) well-differentiated neurogenic tumor that mostly originates from neural crest cells. The average age of diagnosis is 7 years old and it is mostly located in the posterior mediastinum (37.5%). Here we present a 10-year-old girl with a giant thoracic ganglioneuroma. The tumor was resected via posterolateral thoracotomy. With our case report included, there are 10 cases of surgically treated pediatric giant intrathoracic ganglioneuroma.

Keywords : giant, ganglioneuroma, pediatric, thoracic surgery, posterior mediastinal tumors