CASE REPORT   

Journal of Radiological Review 2021 September;8(3):245-8

DOI: 10.23736/S2723-9284.21.00113-7

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Acute respiratory distress: the onset of three cancers in pediatric age at the time of the coronavirus pandemic

Rosanna MAMONE ¹, Rocco MINELLI ² ✉, Maria G. GIAGNORIO ², Sonia TAMASI ¹, Eugenio ROSSI ³, Francesco ESPOSITO ¹, Anna M. GIUGLIANO ¹, Gioconda ARGENZIANO ¹, Donatella IRACE ⁴, Roberta GALATOLA ⁵, Massimo ZECCOLINI ¹

¹ Unit of General Radiology, A.O.R.N. Santobono-Pausilipon, Naples, Italy; ² Department of Life and Health “V. Tiberio,” University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy; ³ Unit of Radiology and Ultrasound, A.O.R.N. Santobono-Pausilipon, Naples, Italy; ⁴ Pediatric Section, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy; ⁵ Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

We described the radiographic and tomographic pulmonary picture of three children came to the emergency room of the “Santobono-Pausilipon” Pediatric Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic with acute respiratory distress, the first clinical manifestation of three unrecognized and already advanced stage cancers: renal cell carcinoma, papillary thyroid carcinoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

KEY WORDS: Respiratory distress syndrome; COVID-19; Neoplasm metastasis; Positron emission tomography computed tomography