High-Risk Adult Wilms' Tumour in Pregnancy: A Case Report

Wilms' tumour is the most common renal neoplasm in children with an incidence of 10 cases per 1 million children and a median age at diagnosis of 3.5 years. In Western countries its occurrence in adults is 0.2 cases per million people in western countries and carries a poorer prognosis. The co-...

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Autores principales: Kasenda, Stephen, Mategula, Donnie, Chiphangwi, Noel, Gadama, Luis Aaron, Masamba, Leo Peter Lockie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Medical Association Of Malawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6698624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452850
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/mmj.v31i2.9
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Sumario:Wilms' tumour is the most common renal neoplasm in children with an incidence of 10 cases per 1 million children and a median age at diagnosis of 3.5 years. In Western countries its occurrence in adults is 0.2 cases per million people in western countries and carries a poorer prognosis. The co-existence of Adult Wilms' tumour and pregnancy is extremely rare with less than 20 cases published in the English literature. We present a case of a Malawian woman who had progressive high-risk metastatic Adult Wilms' tumour in pregnancy after nephrectomy, radiotherapy and two lines of chemotherapy.

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