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Recurrent Monophasic Wilms‘ Tumor in Pelvic Kidney – A Therapeutic Challenge

Wilms’ tumor in the current era of multimodality treatment has promising outcome, but approximately 10-15% of the patients with favorable-histology, experience tumor progression or relapse. We hereby present an unusual case of repeated loco-regional recurrences in a patient with stage I intermediate...

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Autores principales: Sarin, Yogesh Kumar, Raj, Prince
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623252
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Sumario:Wilms’ tumor in the current era of multimodality treatment has promising outcome, but approximately 10-15% of the patients with favorable-histology, experience tumor progression or relapse. We hereby present an unusual case of repeated loco-regional recurrences in a patient with stage I intermediate-risk monophasic (epithelial variant) Wilms’ tumor (WT) of pelvic kidney requiring aggressive therapy over a decade and lay emphasis on the importance of initial completion of therapy and need for long term follow-up.