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