Volume 13, Issue 1 ( March 2021 2021)                   Iranian Journal of Blood and Cancer 2021, 13(1): 26-28 | Back to browse issues page

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1- Department of Radiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2- Pediatric Surgery Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3- Department of Pediatric Surgery, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
4- Department of Radiology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5- Pediatric Surgery Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , maryam.neda.panahi@gmail.com
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Mesenchymal hamartoma of the chest wall is a rare benign tumor found in infants and young children. We present a male neonate with bilateral multifocal mesenchymal hamartoma of the chest wall since birth causing deformity of the chest wall and respiratory symptoms. Mesenchymal hamartoma is often unilateral and solitary, but multifocality could be expected in the absence of the malignancy. Mesenchymal hamartoma of the chest wall in infants should always be considered as the differential diagnosis of the chest wall masses in young children.

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: Case report | Subject: Pediatric Hematology & Oncology
Received: 2020/09/7 | Accepted: 2021/04/21 | Published: 2021/05/23

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