askin’s tumor: a case report and terature review

Askin tumour is an uncommon form of malignant neoplasm that develops from the soft tissues of the thoracopulmonary wall and has a neuroectodermal origin and pos-sess aggressive behavior. as it mimics other common pediatric disorders such as em-pyema, tuberculosis, lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma and neuroblastoma, it acts as a great diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the treating clinicians. its rarity, however, contributes greatly to the absence of standardized treatment protocols further facilitat-ing detrimental prognosis. so, the major deciding factor of its survival rate is early and precise diagnosis followed by its treatment. the present study reports a case askin’s tumor in a child which is locally aggressive and quite rare. while making the definitive diagnosis of an askin’s tumour of the thor-copulmonary region the possibility of the occurrence of other primitive neuroectoder-mal tumors (pnet) was not ruled out