Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy (review of modern literature — 2018)

Abstract

The review deals with the systematization of mo­dern world ideas about pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and a disease associated with their hyperplasia — neuroendocrine hyperplasia in infants. The pathogenesis, clinical and instrumental diagnostic criteria are presented, as well as differential diagnosis of neuroendocrine hyperplasia of infancy and other interstitial diseases of the lungs in young children. An algorithm for the diagnosis, treatment at the present stage and the results of catamnestic observation of children suffered from neuroendocrine hyperplasia has been demonstrated.

Keywords

• neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia
• infants
• interstitial lungs diseases
• children