From the Difficult Airway Management to Diagnosis of Retropharyngeal Synovial Cell Carcinoma.

ABSTRACT: Respiratory complications are among the most common problems addressed in neonatology in the first hours after birth, whereas the risk of any cancer in the neonatal period is 28 per million. Sarcomas, malignant mesenchymal neoplasms, account for about 8% of all neoplasms in the neonatal period. We report on a male neonate born at 36 + 4/7 weeks of gestation, diagnosed with retropharyngeal synovial carcinoma. Ineffective respiratory movements and generalized cyanosis were the first symptoms to be noted. On the ultrasound examination of the neck, a tumor of the retropharyngeal space was exposed, then visualized by an MRI of the head and neck. The biopsy analysis revealed the diagnosis of an extremely rare tumor in a neonate. The location of its growth was atypical, contributing to a diagnost

SUBMITTER: Jassem-Bobowicz JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9498277 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature