Preoperative therapy for intracaval and atrial extension of wilms tumor
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Intracaval and intracardiac extension of Wilms' tumor. The influence of preoperative chemotherapy on surgical morbidity.
OBJECTIVES The aim of this retrospective study is to compare surgical complications and long-term survival in children with Wilms' tumor (WT) and tumor thrombus receiving or not preoperative chemotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Review of the charts of 155 children with WT treated between 1983 and 2005, and analysis of 16/155 (10.3%) children with WT who presented cavoatrial tumor extension, be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19930615)71:12<4104::aid-cncr2820711249>3.0.co;2-7