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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2444-054X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Cirugía y cirujanos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Cir. cir.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2444-054X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Academia Mexicana de Cirugía A.C.]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S2444-054X2025000300013</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24875/ciru.22000237</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Thoracic lipoblastoma in a 6-year-old African male: a case report]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Lipoblastoma torácico en varón africano de 6 años: reporte de un caso]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Arredondo-Montero]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Javier]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bronte-Anaut]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Mónica]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bardají-Pascual]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carlos]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Universitario de Navarra Pediatric Surgery Department ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Pamplona ]]></addr-line>
<country>Spain</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Universitario de Araba Pathology Department ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Vitoria ]]></addr-line>
<country>Spain</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>93</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>324</fpage>
<lpage>327</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2444-054X2025000300013&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2444-054X2025000300013&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2444-054X2025000300013&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Lipoblastoma is a very infrequent tumor, characteristic of early childhood. The thoracic location is infrequent, with isolated reports to date. We present the case of a 6-year-old male patient with a right thoracic tumor of months of evolution that was surgically removed by right anterolateral thoracotomy and in which the diagnosis of classic well-differentiated lipoblastoma was histologically confirmed. The patient evolved favorably and was discharged. He is currently under follow-up and without recurrence 1 year after surgery. This is, to our knowledge, the first thoracic lipoblastoma reported in an African pediatric patient. The importance of knowing the clinical, semiological, and intraoperative characteristics of this tumor becomes even more important, as in our case, in the context of international cooperation, where in many cases, there is no possibility of performing pre-operative imaging studies or subsequent genetic studies.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El lipoblastoma es un tumor muy infrecuente, característico de la primera infancia. La localización torácica es infrecuente, con reportes aislados hasta la fecha. Presentamos el caso de un paciente varón de 6 años con una tumoración torácica derecha de meses de evolución que fue extirpada quirúrgicamente mediante toracotomía anterolateral derecha y en la que se confirmó histológicamente el diagnóstico de lipoblastoma clásico bien diferenciado. El paciente evolucionó favorablemente y fue dado de alta. Actualmente se encuentra en seguimiento y sin recidiva un año después de la cirugía. Este es, hasta donde sabemos, el primer lipoblastoma torácico reportado en un paciente pediátrico africano. La importancia de conocer las características clínicas, semiológicas e intraoperatorias de este tumor cobra aún más importancia, como en nuestro caso, en el contexto de la cooperación internacional, donde en muchos casos no existe la posibilidad de realizar estudios de imagen preoperatorios ni estudios genéticos posteriores.]]></p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Lipoblastoma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Thoracic]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Pediatric]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[African]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Male]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Lipoblastoma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Torácico]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Pediátrico]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Africano]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Varón]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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