Abstract Background Neuroblastic tumors arise from primitive sympathetic ganglion cells and are the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood. Ganglioneuroma is well-differentiated, benign subtype comprises less than 1% all soft tissue tumors. One to 5% these occur in head neck, including parapharyngeal space. It uncommon find a physically detectable, neoplastic space mass child. Case r...

INTRODUCTION Synovial sarcoma (SS) is uncommon high grade soft tissue sarcoma, accounting for less than 10% of all head and neck sarcomas. Also, about 10% of SS occur within the Head & Neck. In the pediatric population, SS is an extremely rare head & neck malignancy. PRESENTATION OF CASE We present a case of sixteen years old boy diagnosed with SS situated of the hypopharynx treated by surgic...

introduction: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) and non hodgkin’s lymphoma(nhl) are the most common cancers in childhood and  adolescence. most children with all and nhl have long term survival (>80%). endocrinopathy is a common complication in pediatric cancers following the treatment (20-50% prevalence), in addition, cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy can influence side effect on growth...

As the associations between pediatric overweight/obesity and bone health remain controversial, we investigated the effects of overweight/obesity as well as lean mass (LM) and fat mass (FM) on bone parameters in adolescents. Bone parameters were evaluated using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) data of 982 adolescents (aged 12-19 years) from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examinati...

Branchial cleft cysts are common causes of congenital neck masses in the pediatric population. However, neonatal presentation of branchial cleft cysts is uncommon, but recognizable secondary to acute respiratory distress from airway compression or complications secondary to infection. We report a 1-day-old infant presenting with an air-filled neck mass that enlarged with Valsalva and was not as...

Lipoblastoma is a rare benign pediatric tumor derived from embryonic fat, and only two cases of lipoblastoma located on the posterior side of the neck have been reported in the literature. Here, we present the third case of posterior neck lipoblastoma in a 13-month-old healthy girl, who presented with a firm, posterior cervical mass. The tumor was completely resected following ultrasonography, ...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of palpable neck masses may be a diagnostic problem in pediatric patients, with differential diagnosis including congenital, inflammatory, tumoral and traumatic lesions. Ultrasonography is usually a satisfactory method to make a correct pre-operative evaluation of neck masses, although diagnosis is often challenging for the surgeon and the radiologist and sometimes only po...

Ectopic cervical thymus (ECT) is an uncommon cause for cervical mass in the pediatric age group. Ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging findings of the mass (located along the thymic descent pathway along the thymopharyngeal tract and has identical echostructure and signal intensities to the native thymus in the superior mediastinum) would lead to the diagnosis. The diagnosis is confirmed by...

discussion thymic cyst must be considered in differential diagnosis of a young child with a cervical mass. introduction ectopic cervical thymic cyst is a very rare cause of neck masses in children. the diagnosis is sometimes very difficult and preoperative, correctly diagnosed thymic cysts in the neck are very low. case presentation we report a 5-year-old boy with a left sided cervical mass and...