Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Solitary spinal metastasi from Wilms' tumor

  • Short Reports
  • Published:
Pediatric Radiology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

A 7 year old boy presented with sudden lower extremity paresis six months after resection of a Wilms' tumor. Roentgenologic studies showed destruction of the sixth vertebral body and a thoracic extradural block by an epidural mass subsequently proven to be a solitary Wilms' metastasis.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Ledlie EM, Mynors LS, Draper GJ, Gorbach PD (1970) Natural history and treatment of Wilms' tumour: An analysis of 335 cases occurring in England and Wales 1963–6. Br Med J IV: 195

    Google Scholar 

  2. Marsden HB, Lawler W, Kumar PM (1978) Bone metastasizing renal tumor of childhood. Cancer 42: 1922

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Morgan E, Kidd JM (1978) Undifferentiated sarcoma of the kidney. Cancer 42: 1916

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Rudhe U (1968) Skeletal metastases in Wilms' tumour: A roentgenologic study. Ann Radiol (Paris) 12: 337

    Google Scholar 

  5. Westra P, Kieffer SA, Mosser DG (1967) Wilms' tumor, A summary of 25 years of experience before actinomycin-D. AJR 75: 971

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Radiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    T. e. Sumner, J. E. Crowe & M. D. Parker

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    T. e. Sumner & J. E. Crowe

  3. Department of Rathology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Janis P. White

Authors
  1. T. e. Sumner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. J. E. Crowe
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. M. D. Parker
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Janis P. White
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Sumner, T.e., Crowe, J.E., Parker, M.D. et al. Solitary spinal metastasi from Wilms' tumor. Pediatr Radiol 9, 175–176 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01464315

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01464315

Key words

Search

Navigation