Surgical Approaches to Neuroblastoma: Review of the Operative Techniques

Federica Fati; Rebecca Pulvirenti; Irene Paraboschi; Giuseppe Martucciello

doi:10.3390/children8060446

Surgical Approaches to Neuroblastoma: Review of the Operative Techniques

Children (Basel). 2021 May 25;8(6):446. doi: 10.3390/children8060446.

Authors

Federica Fati¹, Rebecca Pulvirenti¹, Irene Paraboschi^{2

3}, Giuseppe Martucciello^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Surgery Unit, Women's and Children's Health Department, University Hospital of Padua, 35128 Padua, Italy.
² Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Riabilitazione, Oftalmologia, Genetica e Scienze Materno-Infantili (DINOGMI), University of Genoa, 16147 Genoa, Italy.
³ Department of Paediatric Surgery, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital, 16147 Genoa, Italy.

Abstract

Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most commonly occurring soft-tissue malignancy of childhood. Surgery plays an important role in multidisciplinary treatment and its principal aim is a local control of the disease, respecting the integrity of the surrounding structures. There is no unanimous consensus on the best surgical technique, and the operative approach largely depends on the anatomical location and the extension of the mass. To have a complete overview of the different type of treatment, we made a review of the literature from the last twenty years of all the surgical approaches applied for NBs resection, accordingly to the anatomical site.

Keywords: innovative techniques; laparoscopy; laparotomy; neuroblastoma; surgery; thoracoscopy; thoracotomy.

Publication types

Review