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Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue

Neoplasms Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue

86 articoli — 1998-2025 Include sottocategorie MeSH

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Cefalea e vomito, a pensar male spesso ci si azzecca

Zanin F

2025/9 — pag. 247-248 — DOI

An 11-year-old boy presenting with occipital headache and vomiting was diagnosed with a posterior fossa pilocytic astrocytoma. This case underscores the need to promptly identify red flag symptoms in paediatric headaches and to perform timely neuroim...

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C’è scoliosi e scoliosi…

Pontrandolfo M.

2025/7 — pag. 462-464 — DOI

A 6-year-old girl was diagnosed with scoliosis during a routine check-up. Imaging revealed a paravertebral mass at the D5-D8 level, diagnosed as a mature ganglioneuroma, which was successfully removed. The scoliosis, considered secondary to the mass,...

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Fratture patologiche: dal sospetto di rachitismo a una diagnosi oncologica

Lacovara A, Pepino C, Covini S, Mazza F, Incolingo C, Ferrecchi M, Franzone D.

2025/7 — pag. 462-464 — DOI

The clinical case described highlights an unusual presentation of metastatic-stage neuroblastoma, with a femoral fracture that initially led to a clinical suspicion of rickets....

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Un caso di neurinoma del III nervo cranico in paziente cefalgico noto

Ciurlia C, Romani F, Peruzzi C, Sala D, Lazzerotti A, Biondi A.

2025/5 — pag. 329-330 — DOI

Acquired third nerve palsies are rare in children but are often associated with significant underlying pathologies. This article describes a paediatric case of isolated third nerve palsy due to a schwannoma. A 10-year-old boy with a history of migrai...

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Diarrea intrattabile e neuroblastoma

Contratto c, Casabona F, Avanzini S, conte M, Gandullia P

2025/5 — pag. 127-128 — DOI

A previously healthy three-year-old girl presented with persistent diarrhoea, progressive abdominal distension and weight loss. After negative infectious and anatomical workup, abdominal imaging (ultrasound, MRI and CT) revealed a retroperitoneal mas...

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2025/4

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Sintomi atipici dei tumori del sistema nervoso centrale in età pediatrica

Pignataro F, Scisci E, Perillo T, Santoro N.

2025/2 — pag. 120-122 — DOI

Paediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumours are the second most common cancer in the 0 to 14 age group; additionally, they constitute the main cause of morbidity and death associated to cancer. Although intracranial hypertension-related and local...

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Sintomi atipici dei tumori del sistema nervoso centrale in età pediatrica

Pignataro F, Scisci E, Perillo T, Santoro N

2025/2 — pag. 37-42 — DOI

Paediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumours are the second most common cancer in the 0 to 14 age group; additionally, they constitute the main cause of morbidity and death associated to cancer. Although intracranial hypertension-related and local...

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Rivista sfogliabile on line

2024/10

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Che sudori!

Benevenuta C, Caci AM, Calvo MM, Mussinatto I, Costagliola G, Tuscano A, Calosso G, Timeus FS

2024/10 — pag. 661-663 — DOI

The article presents the case of a one-year-old boy who was hospitalized for episodes of intense sweating, pallor, mild shortness of breath and hypertension. Tests revealed elevated LDH and catecholamines, and an ultrasound identified an 8 cm abdomin...

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Neurofibromatosi e ipertensione arteriosa: alla ricerca della causa

Ricci S, Spagnoli C, Caponi L, Pugliese F

2024/10 — pag. 661-663 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 6-year-old girl with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who was diagnosed with significant arterial hypertension during a routine check-up. After initial ineffective therapy and inconclusive investigations, an angio-CT r...

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Una paralisi del nervo facciale che ricorre

Sandei M

2024/10 — pag. 219-219 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 16-month-old girl with suspected neurofibromatosis I who was evaluated for recurrent episodes of peripheral facial nerve palsy and severe hypertension (160/110 mmHg). Tests revealed bilateral renal artery stenosis, t...

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Neurofibromatosi e ipertensione arteriosa: alla ricerca della causa

Ricci S, Spagnoli C, Caponi L, Pugliese F

2024/10 — pag. 214-214 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 6-year-old girl with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who was diagnosed with significant arterial hypertension during a routine check-up. After initial ineffective therapy and inconclusive investigations, an angio-CT r...

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Nistagmo e diplopia: occhio alla diagnosi

Savino V, Bellini T, Siri L, De Grandis E, Tortora D, Piccotti E.

2024/8 — pag. 532-534 — DOI

Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, primarily located in the cerebellum. This clinical case highlights the importance of maintaining a high clinical suspicion and conducting timely evaluations, even when symptoms ar...

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Le manifestazioni parossistiche non epilettiche

Tratta E, Piacentini F, Pelosi P, Cupone R, Mirri S, Bini R, Mirri G, Ferrara G.

2024/8 — pag. 532-534 — DOI

A 9-month-old infant, under follow-up for neonatal sepsis due to Streptococcus agalactiae, presented to the Emergency Department with episodes of head drooping, sometimes accompanied by blinking. During the clinical examination, the infant showed nor...

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La sindrome diencefalica: magro, lungo e sorridente

Mercuri C, Piccolo G, Molteni M, Verrico A, Piatelli G, Gaggero G, Ramaglia A, Milanaccio C

2024/26 — pag. 1-1 — DOI

The Authors describe the case of a 10-month-old boy with growth arrest and nystagmus related to a pilomyxoid astrocytoma in a paramedian suprasellar location....

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Mal di testa? Non pensare all’oculista

Campone C, Negro I, Vandone M

2023/6 — pag. 104-104 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 3-year-old girl presenting with worsening and severe headache initially attributed to astigmatism that was finally diagnosed as cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma....

RI Problemi speciali
Guardare oltre il tumore: le cancer-predisposing syndrome in età pediatrica

Bettini LR, Lauriola RS, Vendemini F, Coliva T, Biondi A, Cazzaniga G.

2023/4 — pag. 237-241 — DOI

About 10% of children with cancer carry a pathogenic mutation in genes predisposing to tumourigenesis. These mutations are being identified more and more frequently thanks to the use of next-generation sequencing techniques in the diagnostic work-up ...

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Un’anca molto raffreddata

Carraro C.

2023/3 — pag. 188 — DOI

The case of a 3-year-old girl presenting with right hip pain and persisting limp is described. The diagnosis of adrenal neuroblastoma with femoral metastasis was finally made....

RI Dermo mail
Nevi ipermelanici, eritema cronico migrante

2022/9 — pag. 608 — DOI

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Cosa deve sapere il pediatra dei nevi melanocitari

Berti I.

2022/3 — pag. 179-182 — DOI

Melanocytic nevi are very common at any age. They can be congenital or acquired and are benign lesions in most cases. Melanoma is indeed very rare in children. Melanocytic nevi do not often require specialistic evaluation. Paediatricians should know ...

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Il craniofaringioma

Salce N, Giovannelli E, Graziani V, Cozzolino M, Mazzatenta D, Zucchelli M, Marchetti F

2021/7 — pag. 467-469 — DOI

Craniopharyngioma (CP) is a rare epithelial low-grade tumour that develops in the sellar/suprasellar region of the brain, along the craniopharyngeal duct. It has a bimodal distribution and the first peak occurs in paediatric age almost exclusively co...

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Donne e coltelli

Tonin G, Ganis R, Colonna F

2021/7 — pag. 465-466 — DOI

The authors discuss the case of a 31-month-old girl coming from Burkina Faso who presented with a severe genital mutilation....

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Tra reflussi e torcicolli

Brocchi S, Mambelli L, Mainetti M, Cenni P, Romeo C, Zucchelli M, Marchetti F

2021/7 — pag. 464-465 — DOI

The paper descibes the cases of a 10-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy with CNS neoplasia. The girl presented with acute vomiting and cervicalgia while in the boy vomiting persisted for three months as the only symptom and was iniatially misinterpre...

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“Mi sembra tanto depresso”… aveva tutte le ragioni per esserlo!

Iacono A

2021/7 — pag. 463-466 — DOI

The paper reports - in the form of a dialogue between paediatricians - the case of an 8-year-old boy who presented with about 10 days of sporadic episodes of vomiting, profuse asthenia and change in behaviour. Brain MRI showed the presence of a crani...

RI Problemi speciali
Sclerosi tuberosa ed everolimus: una nuova storia

Cervesi C, Di Marzio GM, Kiren V, Cattaruzzi E, Costa P, Carrozzi M

2021/7 — pag. 443-449 — DOI

Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder, due to inactivating muta-tions of TSC1 or TSC2 mTOR pathway genes and is characterized by variable multisystem manifestations ranging from hamartomas to malignant neoplasms. It f...

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Stipsi e zoppia… il neuroblastoma

Del Rizzo I, Kiren V, Rabusin M

2021/6 — pag. 393-393 — DOI

A case of a sixteen-month-old girl with limp and constipation do to abdominal neuroblastoma is presented. The clinical presentation of neuroblastoma is highly variable, ranging from a mass that causes no symptoms to a primary tumour that causes criti...

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Le masse surrenaliche nella sindrome di Beckwith-Wiedemann: un algoritmo diagnostico

Borraccetti N, Bruno I, Lambertini AG, Casadio L, Radice C, Donati I, Piccinini G, Minguzzi MT, Marchetti F

2021/5 — pag. 333-334 — DOI

Children with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWs) have an increased risk of developing embryonic tumours during the first few years of life. Predisposition to the development of tumours is closely related to molecular subtype and therefore the cancer s...

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Le masse surrenaliche nella sindrome di Beckwith-Wiedemann: un algoritmo diagnostico

Borraccetti N, Bruno I, Lambertini AG, Casadio L, Radice C, Donati I, Piccinini G, Minguzzi MT, Marchetti F

2021/5 — pag. 150-153 — DOI

Children with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWs) have an increased risk of developing embryonic tumours during the first few years of life. Predisposition to the development of tumours is closely related to molecular subtype and therefore the cancer s...

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Torcicollo ricorrente

D. Pittarello


2020/7 — pag. 192-192 — DOI

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Una scoliosi rapidamente progressiva

B. Bossini

2020/26 — pag. 166-166 — DOI

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Un mal di schiena protratto

M. Maglione

2020/6 — pag. 391

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Occhi roteanti

M. Majorana

2019/8 — pag. 531-532

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Uno stridore senza parole

P. Assandro

2019/7 — pag. 147-148

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Troppo stanca troppo presto: la leucemia mielomonocitica giovanile

S. Contorno

2019/4 — pag. 95-95

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Complicanze endocrinologiche nei bambini affetti da neurofibromatosi 1 e glioma delle vie ottiche

M. Scilipoti

2019/4 — pag. 93-93

RI Pagine elettroniche
Un asma persistente… troppo persistente

G. Vergine, F. Venturelli, M. Poloni, B. Filippini, E. Fabbri, P. Gasperini, V. Corazzi, M. Valli, F. Muratore, R. Pericoli

2019/3 — pag. 193-195

Primary lung tumours in children are very rare, but bronchial carcinoid tumours comprise 50-80% of the malignant pulmonary neoplasms diagnosed in children and young adults. Most patients with bronchial carcinoid tumours present with wheezing, cough a...

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Nevo melanocitico gigante congenito

G. Ventura

2019/3 — pag. 47-48

EL Caso contributivo
Un asma persistente… troppo persistente

G. Vergine, F. Venturelli, M. Poloni, B. Filippini, E. Fabbri, P. Gasperini, V. Corazzi, M. Valli, F. Muratore, R. Pericoli

2019/3 — pag. 36-40

Primary lung tumours in children are very rare, but bronchial carcinoid tumours comprise 50-80% of the malignant pulmonary neoplasms diagnosed in children and young adults. Most patients with bronchial carcinoid tumours present with wheezing, cough a...

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Diplopia, strabismo a recente insorgenza e...

M. Ronconi

2018/4 — pag. 259-261

RI Pediatria flash
La sindrome del carcinoma nevoide a cellule basali o sindrome di Gorlin-Goltz

A. Agrusti

2018/3 — pag. 184-185

RI Dermo mail
Xantogranuloma giovanile Onicomadesi

2017/4 — pag. 262

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Davide o Golia?

R. Romani

2016/2

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Caduta dallo scivolo

M. Orrù

2015/10

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Epilessia e sindrome di Moyamoya in bambino con neurofibromatosi di tipo 1

P. Bernardo, M. Cirillo, R. Militerni, B. Nobili, S. Perrotta, C. Santoro

2015/6

Seizures are present in numerous genetic diseases involving the nervous system. Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a RASopathy characterized by peripheral and central nervous system involvement, has been associated with a higher risk of epilepsy. Recent...

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Non cammina bene, ha “tremori” e gli occhi sembra che danzino...

M. Grassi, F. De Leonardis, P. Muggeo, M. Sesta, G. Paradies, N. Santoro

2014/7 — pag. 445-450

The paper reports the case of a 15-month-old girl who presented with abnormalities of gait, myoclonus and opsoclonus. Paediatric opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome is associated in more than 50% to a neuroblastoma, generally with favorable prognosis. St...

RI Pediatria flash
La neurofibromatosi di tipo 2

2013/10 — pag. 660-661

RI Pediatria flash
Feocromocitoma e paraganglioma

G. Patti

2013/9 — pag. 588-589

RI Aggiornamento
Il retinoblastoma

A. D’Ambrosio, G. Coriolani, M. Caini, D. Galimberti, S. Giomi, S. Badii, S. Moretti, M.S. Toti, F. Coccina, F. Carra, T. Hadjistilianou

2013/4 — pag. 227-236

Retinoblastoma is the most frequently diagnosed intraocular malignancy in infants. Recently, there have been significant advances in the management of this disease. New therapeutic strategies, such as superselective intra-arterial chemotherapy and ...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Una strana artrite settica dell’anca

C. Mandato, D. De Brasi, F. Esposito, S. Vetrella, P. Siani

2013/3 — pag. 191-193

The paper reports the case of a 3-year-old girl presenting with septic arthritis of left hip with poor clinical response to treatments. The child had been treated for at least 3 weeks by hip joint drainage and antibiotic therapy based on synovial ...

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"Che lingua grande che hai!"

E. Zanelli, M. Minute

2012/10

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Pelle di leopardo

M. Abate, S. Dipresa

2011/9

RI Pediatria flash
Trucchi del mestiere in oftalmologia

2011/7 — pag. 462-463

RI Editoriali
Cellulari e tumori cerebrali: evidenze limitate, precauzioni doverose

G. Tamburlini

2011/6 — pag. 347-349

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Un reflusso gastroesofageo molto maligno

M. Grassi, V. Cecinati, F. De Leonardis, D. Amato, L.P. Brescia, D. De Mattia, N. Santoro

2010/8 — pag. 529-530

We report a case of a 13-year-old boy with recurrent episodes of vomiting. Initially a diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux with esophagitis was made. The patient also showed bradycardia and deflections of mood. Neurological assessment and examin...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una curva di troppo: astrocitoma pilocitico

G. Guerrini, E. Fabbri, C. Malaventura, R. Burnelli

2010/8

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Una gambina più grossa

M.G. Scala, M. Mayer

2010/1 — pag. 55-56

The Authors describe a case of isolated hemihyperplasia (HHI) diagnosed on a three-month-old female child. During a visit at our pediatric surgery disproportion of the limbs was noticed, so the child was sent to genetic counselling. HHI diagnosis...

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Accesso libero
Non solo ADHD...

A. Skabar

2009/5

RI Aggiornamento monografico
Oncologia pediatrica: dalla diagnosi alla terapia, presente e futuro (parte seconda)

P. Paolucci, I. Mariotti, E. Bigi, S. Schiavo, C. Cano

2009/3 — pag. 156-161

The objective of treatment for more than 70% of children with cancer outlines the successful routes built up by paediatric oncologists over the latest 40 years. In addition to the evolution of diagnostic routes reported in our former article, the sec...

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
Neurofibromatosi tipo I (parte seconda)

G. Bartolozzi

2009/3

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
Neurofibromatosi tipo I (parte prima)

G. Bartolozzi

2009/2

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Ipertrofia clitoridea in bambina affetta da neurofibromatosi di tipo 1

E. Ballerini, R. Luksch

2006/9 — pag. 601-602

We report the case of NF1 in a 21 month old female, who presented with hypertrophy of the clitoris. The work-up evaluations revealed the presence of multiple pelvic and abdominal neurofibromas and concomitant histologically assessed presacral ganglio...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Ipertrofia clitoridea in bambina affetta da neurofibromatosi di tipo 1

E. Ballerini, R. Luksch

2006/9

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Un'ustione proprio lì

M. Curtone

2005/4 — pag. 256-257

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Rigidita' nucale e mioclonie ipniche all'arto superiore destrocome sintomi di esordio di astrocitoma midollare

F. Forte, M. Bonelli, C. Calzone, E. Lapacciana .

2003/1

RI Pagine elettroniche
Rigidità nucale e mioclonie ipniche all’arto superiore destro come sintomi di esordio di astrocitoma midollare

2003/1 — pag. 58-58

Case description of a spinal astrocytoma with very slow onset and very discrete initial signs (stiff neck, partial paresis of two fingers of the right hand). The child was admitted to hospital for the presence of localized sleep myoclonias of the ...

EL Pediatria per immagini
Accesso libero
Nevo di Spitz

F. Longo

2000/7

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Melanoma "gigante" del cuoio capelluto

V. De Francesco, ME. Parlangeli, R. Grattoni, M. Osti, P. Longhi

1999/8

RI Pagina verde
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Melanoma “gigante” al cuoio capelluto

V. De Francesco, M.E. Parlangeli, R. Grattoni, M. Osti, P. Longhi

1999/8 — pag. 471-472

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Il meglio è nemico del bene

M. Frigerio, G. Caroni, G. Garbo, G. Ferrari

1998/2 — pag. 122-124