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- Surgical intervention alone may be curative as a single therapeutic modality for the management of low risk neuroblastoma patients.
- Surgical intervention must be followed by chemotherapy for the management of intermediate risk neuroblastoma patients.
- The potential benefit of aggressive surgical approaches in high-risk patients with metastatic disease to achieve complete tumor resectionhas not been unequivocally demonstrated.[1]
- Surgical complications following neuroblastoma resection may include:[2]
- Intussusception
- Internal haemorrhage due to vessel injuries
* Nerve injuries
- ↑ Neuroblastoma treatment–for health professionals. National Cancer Institute (2015) http://www.cancer.gov/types/neuroblastoma/hp/neuroblastoma-treatment-pdq#section/_1 Accessed on October, 8 2015
- ↑ Neuroblastomas. Patient (2015) http://patient.info/doctor/neuroblastomas Accessed on October, 11 2015