Bilateral botryoid nephroblastoma: a rare cause of renal failure

Botryoid Wilms tumor: a non-existent “entity” causing diagnostic and staging difficulties

“…There were 20 males and 10 females (2:1 ratio) (in one case the gender was not The patients received very different treatments, for reasons which were not always obvious from the reports ( Table 1). Three patients were treated with preoperative chemotherapy followed by surgery only in one case (stage 5) 33 , surgery and chemotherapy in one (bilateral, stage 2) 24 and surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy (stage 3) 29 . Twenty patients were treated with primary surgery followed by: no further treatment in one case 14 , radiotherapy only in one case (stage 5) 32 , chemotherapy and radiotherapy in four cases, and chemotherapy in 14 cases.…”