Congenital Dopamine-secreting Neuroblastoma with Clinical and Biochemical Remission

A case of neuroblastoma in an adult with raised catecholamines

“…I n children, the prognosis of neuroblastoma depends especially on the site of origin and age of onset; the younger the infant, the better the prognosis (Brett, Oppe, Ruthven, and Sandler, 1964).…”

Urinary phenolic acid and alcohol excretion in the newborn.

“…It is thus important to try to define each condition biochemically by determining the normal excretion range of the phenolic acids disturbed in these and allied pathological conditions. It is similarly important to determine the normal range of cate-cholamine metabolite output so that any significant increase is readily detected: it may facilitate the rapid diagnosis of one of the most common neoplasms of early life, the catecholamine-secreting neuroblastoma (Brett et al, 1964;Anders, Kindermann, and Pfeifer, 1973).…”