[Recent surgical approach for pediatric malignant tumor]

Abstract

Owing to the recent progress of chemotherapy, a concept of surgical intervention to the malignant tumor in childhood needs to be changed. Surgical approach has not always been a sole way to the cure of the disease anymore. I discussed the surgical approach in neuroblastoma, Wilms' tumor, hepatoblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma and malignant teratoma, stressed especially on how to combine surgery with chemotherapy and on intensiveness of surgery. Since most of the children with malignant tumor can be cured and survive, surgeons have to choose the operative procedure, taking their functional quality into consideration.