Intermittent Fever, Progressive Weight Gain, and Personality Changes in a Five-Year-Old Girl: Unusual Paraneoplastic Syndrome due to Presacral Ganglioneuroma
Ganglioneuromas are rare tumors in the neuroblastoma group. Paraneoplastic syndrome (PNS) due to presacral ganglioneuromas was hardly reported in previous literature. Here, we reported that a case of a 5-year-old girl with a presacral ganglioneuroma presented with PNS, who presented with intermitten...
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| description | Ganglioneuromas are rare tumors in the neuroblastoma group. Paraneoplastic syndrome (PNS) due to presacral ganglioneuromas was hardly reported in previous literature. Here, we reported that a case of a 5-year-old girl with a presacral ganglioneuroma presented with PNS, who presented with intermittent fever, progressive weight gain, and personality changes. Our report revealed intermittent fever, progressive weight gain, and personality changes may represent rare paraneoplastic syndromes in ganglioneuromas. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-194869609a8c4b2b8178ee1ecf4477302025-02-03T06:01:29ZengWileyCase Reports in Endocrinology2090-65012090-651X2016-01-01201610.1155/2016/27435762743576Intermittent Fever, Progressive Weight Gain, and Personality Changes in a Five-Year-Old Girl: Unusual Paraneoplastic Syndrome due to Presacral GanglioneuromaChao Yang0Chang-chun Li1Jun Zhang2Xiang-ru Kong3Zhenzhen Zhao4Xiao-bin Deng5Liang Peng6Shan Wang7Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 136 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, ChinaDepartment of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 136 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, ChinaDepartment of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 136 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, ChinaDepartment of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 136 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, ChinaDepartment of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 136 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, ChinaDepartment of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 136 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, ChinaDepartment of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 136 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, ChinaDepartment of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 136 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, ChinaGanglioneuromas are rare tumors in the neuroblastoma group. Paraneoplastic syndrome (PNS) due to presacral ganglioneuromas was hardly reported in previous literature. Here, we reported that a case of a 5-year-old girl with a presacral ganglioneuroma presented with PNS, who presented with intermittent fever, progressive weight gain, and personality changes. Our report revealed intermittent fever, progressive weight gain, and personality changes may represent rare paraneoplastic syndromes in ganglioneuromas.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2743576 |
| spellingShingle | Chao Yang Chang-chun Li Jun Zhang Xiang-ru Kong Zhenzhen Zhao Xiao-bin Deng Liang Peng Shan Wang Intermittent Fever, Progressive Weight Gain, and Personality Changes in a Five-Year-Old Girl: Unusual Paraneoplastic Syndrome due to Presacral Ganglioneuroma Case Reports in Endocrinology |
| title | Intermittent Fever, Progressive Weight Gain, and Personality Changes in a Five-Year-Old Girl: Unusual Paraneoplastic Syndrome due to Presacral Ganglioneuroma |
| title_full | Intermittent Fever, Progressive Weight Gain, and Personality Changes in a Five-Year-Old Girl: Unusual Paraneoplastic Syndrome due to Presacral Ganglioneuroma |
| title_fullStr | Intermittent Fever, Progressive Weight Gain, and Personality Changes in a Five-Year-Old Girl: Unusual Paraneoplastic Syndrome due to Presacral Ganglioneuroma |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intermittent Fever, Progressive Weight Gain, and Personality Changes in a Five-Year-Old Girl: Unusual Paraneoplastic Syndrome due to Presacral Ganglioneuroma |
| title_short | Intermittent Fever, Progressive Weight Gain, and Personality Changes in a Five-Year-Old Girl: Unusual Paraneoplastic Syndrome due to Presacral Ganglioneuroma |
| title_sort | intermittent fever progressive weight gain and personality changes in a five year old girl unusual paraneoplastic syndrome due to presacral ganglioneuroma |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2743576 |
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