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Renal-cell carcinoma in children: A different disorder from its adult counterpart?
1 Sept 1998
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BACKGROUND: Renal-cell carcinoma (RCC) is a rare tumor in children. To address whether RCC in children differs from its adult counterpart, we report a series of 16 children with RCC (5 boys, 11 girls, mean age 9.6 years, range 3-19 years) presenting between 1979 and 1996 at three pediatric centers. PROCEDURE: Pathology showed papillary RCC in five patients (31%). Nonpapillary tumors were present in 11 (69%), of...
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