1. Adult Wilms tumor: Case report.
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Morabito, V., Guglielmo, N., Melandro, F., Mazzesi, G., Alesini, F., Bosco, S., and Berloco, P.B.
- Abstract
Wilms tumor (WT) occurs infrequently in adults. Even rarer is adult WT with extension by direct intravascular spread into the right side of the heart. The present report describes a WT with intracaval and intracardiac extension in a 38-year-young man. In addition, thrombus extension above the infrahepatic IVC represents a major technical topic for surgeons because of the possible occurrence of uncontrollable hemorrhages and tumor fragmentation. We report the results of a surgical approach to caval thrombosis including the isolation of the IVC from the liver as routinely performed during liver harvesting. The morphologic and immune-histochemical findings confirmed the diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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