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Description: Discussion:
- most common tumor that causes skeletal metastasis in children;
- frequency of neuroblastoma is about 1 per 100,000 persons;
- originates in neural-crest cells of sympathetic nervous system;
- majority of patients have tumor involvment of regional lymph nodes or have metastasis to bone at time of diagnosis;
- only 20% of children present w/ local or regional disease;
- skeletal involvement is usually diffuse;
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Added: Tue Mar 27 2007