ATYPICAL MESOBLASTIC NEPHROMAS WITH METASTASES AT DIAGNOSIS

Citation
K. Fallouh et al., ATYPICAL MESOBLASTIC NEPHROMAS WITH METASTASES AT DIAGNOSIS, Bulletin du cancer, 84(8), 1997, pp. 807-812
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00074551
Volume
84
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
807 - 812
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-4551(1997)84:8<807:AMNWMA>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The diagnosis of a metastatic kidney tumor arising in a 2-month infant is discussed between atypical mesoblastic distant metastases, their l ocation in bone marrow, liver and thoracic soft tissues, and their ass ociation with myelofibrosis set up an original clinical presentation w hich seems to have never been described elsewhere. Treatment strategy with surgery of the primary followed by a polychemotherapy combining v incristin-etoposide-ifosfamide and the short term follow-up are report ed.