Renal autotransplantation--a kidney saving procedure before spinal radiotherapy.
Renal damage is a well-known consequence of radiation therapy to adjacent tumors. We describe a child requiring spinal irradiation in whom autotransplantation of a kidney to a site outside the radiation field was performed and the renal function preserved.
Hitchcock
R
R
Department of Paediatrics, St. Georges Hospital, Tooting, London, United Kingdom.
Kohler
J
J
Duffy
P G
PG
Malone
P S
PS
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology / Q000528:radiation effects*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D012512:Sarcoma, Ewing / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D016042:Transplantation, Heterotopic