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Renal Tumors in Childhood

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Renal tumors in children range from the benign neonatal congenital mesoblastic nephroma to the highly malignant anaplastic Wilms’ tumor. Despite the intense interest in renal tumors in children because of their genetic implications and understanding of oncogenesis, these tumors are relatively rare. Wilms’ tumors are the most common genitourinary solid tumor in children, yet they only occur in one in every 10,000 children [1]. The treatment, however, of Wilms’ tumor as well as the other tumors in children is one of the great modern miracles of medicine. Before the combination of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery, the survival rate of Wilms’ tumor in the early 20th century was only 20% [2]. Currently, as a result of better understanding of the tumors themselves and the multimodal approach to therapy, survival has continued to improve to its current rate of more than 90% [3–5].

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  1. Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery, Pediatric Urology and Reconstructive Surgery, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

    Dix P. Poppas MD (The Richard Rodgers Family Assistant Professor of Pediatric Urology, Director, Chief) (The Richard Rodgers Family Assistant Professor of Pediatric Urology, Director, Chief)

  2. Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, USA

    Alan B. Retik MD (Professor of Surgery (Urology), Chief) (Professor of Surgery (Urology), Chief)

  3. Department of Urology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Alan B. Retik MD (Professor of Surgery (Urology), Chief) (Professor of Surgery (Urology), Chief)

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Kay, R., Ross, J.H. (2003). Renal Tumors in Childhood. In: Poppas, D.P., Retik, A.B. (eds) Pediatric Urology. Atlas of Clinical Urology. Current Medicine Group, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1089-1_13

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