Wilms' tumour: Late hypertension and recurrent pulmonary metastases. Complete remission with ifosfamide and mesna

Pulmonary metastases in Wilms' tumour: treatment and prognosis.

Mesna Excretion and Ifosfamide Nephrotoxicity in Children1

To characterize the excretion of 2-mercaptoethanesulfonate sodium (mesna) administered by intermittent infusion, urinary concentrations of mesna and its corresponding inactive disulfide »eremeasured during 50 courses of ifosfamide (1.6 g/nr for 5 days) and mesna (400 mg/nr at 0.25, 4, and 6 h after each ifosfamide dose) administered i.v. to 19 patients. Some patients had previously received ne...

Chemotherapy for Uterine Carcinosarcoma with Carboplatin, Ifosfamide and Mesna.

BACKGROUND/AIM Uterine carcinosarcomas (UCSs) are highly aggressive, rare, biphasic tumors composed of epithelial and mesenchymal elements. Surgery remains the mainstay of treatment in early-stage disease. Adjuvant pelvic radiotherapy improves locoregional control without proven overall survival (OS) benefit. Although adjuvant ifosfamide-based combination chemotherapy with cisplatin or paclitax...

Complete remission of pulmonary metastases of Bellini duct carcinoma with cisplatin, gemcitabine and bevacizumab

BACKGROUND Bellini carcinomas, rare tumors of kidney, are aggressive and have a poor prognosis. For these cancers, there is no standard treatment regimen and chemotherapy for urothelial cancer is usually used. CASE REPORT In a 44-year-old man with hematuria, a tumor was diagnosed in the right kidney. After radical nephrectomy, pathologic analysis revealed Bellini carcinoma, staged pT3apN0, Fu...

Recurrent Wilms tumour presenting as bilateral pneumothoraces.

We report the case of a 14-year-old girl who presented with bilateral pneumothoraces secondary to recurrent Wilms' tumour, 10 years following the initial treatment of her tumour. Recurrent Wilms' tumour presenting as bilateral pneumothorax so long after the original diagnosis has not previously been reported.