Bronchial Foreign Body Alerting of a Bronchial Tumor: The Need of a Follow-Up Radiography

• Main Authors: Nahida El-Rifai (Author), Samar Shahine (Author), Hassan Sidani (Author), Ali Sabeh Aion (Author), Antoine Deschildre (Author), Marie-Christine Copin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Lung tumors are extremely rare in the pediatric population, comprising only 0.2% of all malignancies in children. Among them, mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is even rarer with a reported frequency of 0.1% to 0.2%. MEC is defined by the World Health Organization as a tumor characterized by a combinat...