Abstract

MIRABAL FARINAS, Amparo et al. Clinical and therapeutic characteristics of children and adolescents with renal neoplasias. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.7, pp. 821-830. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross sectional study of 51 patients with renal neoplasia, assisted in the Urology Service of the Southern Teaching Pediatric Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January, 1999 to December, 2013, in order to characterize them from the clinical and therapeutic points of view. Female sex, the age group 0-4 years, the tumoral abdominal mass as main clinical manifestation, the nephroblastoma as the most common histological type prevailed in the series, as well as the stage III of the disease. Patients were treated according to the oncoespecific Cuban protocol, with prevalence of surgery, together with the chemotherapy and the radiotherapy. The clinical course of those affected was good and the proportion of dead patients in early clinical stages was minimal

Keywords : Pediatrics; renal neoplasia; Wilms tumours; nephroblastoma.

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