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. 2023 Nov 7;10(11):1790.
doi: 10.3390/children10111790.

Surgery in Bilateral Wilms Tumor-A Single-Center Experience

Fernanda Kelly Marques de Souza  1 , Mayara Caroline Amorim Fanelli  1 , Alexandre Alberto Barros Duarte  1   2 , Maria Teresa de Seixas Alves  3 , Henrique Manoel Lederman  4 , Monica Dos Santos Cypriano  5 , Simone de Campos Vieira Abib  1
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Surgery in Bilateral Wilms Tumor-A Single-Center Experience

Fernanda Kelly Marques de Souza et al. Children (Basel). .

Abstract

The treatment of bilateral Wilms tumors (BWT) involves curing the cancer, preserving long-term renal function, and maintaining a good quality of life. Established methods for achieving these goals include preoperative chemotherapy and nephron-sparing surgery (NSS). This study aimed to evaluate the experience of a single institution in treating patients with BWT. We analyzed cases of BWT treated at the Pediatric Oncology Institute-GRAACC-Federal University of São Paulo over a period of 35 years. Bleeding control was performed with manual compression of the renal parenchyma. Thirty-three patients were included in the study. Thirty cases were synchronous tumors. The mean age at diagnosis was 30.4 months (±22 m) and 66.7% were girls. The median follow-up period was 83 months. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy was the primary approach in most patients (87.9%), with a simultaneous upfront surgical approach performed in 84.8%. Most patients underwent bilateral NSS (70.4%). There were no early complications in this series, but 39.4% had clinical complications. The five-year survival rate was 76%. Therefore, it is clear that the surgical approach to BWT plays a crucial role in achieving good outcomes. However, it is difficult to standardize surgical techniques and technology may have the potential to enhance safety.

Keywords: bilateral Wilms tumor; nephron-sparing surgery; renal surgery; renal tumor.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Surgical technique. (A) Manual compression of the renal parenchyma for bleeding control; (B) Reconstruction with “wrapping the parenchyma”.
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Figure 2
Patients included in this study.
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Figure 3
Approach to renal units in the first procedure.
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Figure 4
Kaplan–Meier curve showing overall survival probabilities (Time = time in months). The shaded area represents the 95% confidence interval.
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