Solitary spinal cord metastasis of Wilms' tumor.
Wilms' tumor metastasis to the spinal cord is very rare at any age. We recently encountered a case of a 4-year-old girl, who had a solitary lumbar spinal cord metastasis about 1 year following the initial nephrectomy and an incomplete course of chemotherapy for a stage I Wilms' tumor. The patient recovered uneventfully after decompressive laminectomy, removal of the extradural spinal cord tumor, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy according to the National Wilms' Tumor Study (NWTS)-IV protocol.
Chang
W T
WT
Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Chen
H C
HC
Peng
H C
HC
Yang
D Y
DY
Chang
C G
CG
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D007796:Laminectomy / Q000379:methods; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D009396:Wilms Tumor / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery