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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1960;3(2):49-53. Published online October 31, 1960.

CLINICAL STUDIES ON WILMS’S TUMOR

C.M Park¹, C.W Song¹, T.H Shin¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Presbyterian Hospital Taegu, Korea

Abstract

Wilms’s Tumor, Embryoma of the kidney as it is more properly termed, 25 cases of has been studied. Both leukemia and Wilms's tumor are the most common and important malignacies in children. Thirty six Leukemia and twenty five Wilms’s tumor cases were treated at the Children's Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital in TAEGU, KOREA. During the past three years and eight, months period(Jan. 1950~Aug. 1959), have been studied clinically. 1)Wilm’s Tumor cases (25 cases)presented 19% of the total number tumor in this hospital. 2)The highest age incidence in children was in 4 years of age which accounted for about 60%. of total Wilms’s tumor patients, the youngest was 5 months and the oldest was 8 years of age and more average age was 3 years and 3 months. 3) Male children were much prominent in sex incidence at the ratio of 4:1” since the tumor has equal incidence in sexes according to most references, This difference may be due to oriental custom putting importance and interests in male; children than female. 4)8% of the total patients had bilateral involvement. 5)The largest turner extirpated weighed 2750 Gms. 6)Histopathologically, adenocarcinoma was common type of the Wilms’s tumor which account. 40% of the total number of (Wllm’s tumor) cases. 7)The prognosis of the patients with bilateral involvement (2 cases) and metastized cases. (6 cases) were worst of all. 8)The pre and post operative irradiation seemed to be most favorable treatment. 9)The six out of nineteen patients operated had died postoperatively and over 10 months to 2 years after operaton 56^ of patients had survived

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