Extrarenal Wilms' Tumor of the Female Genital System: A Case Report and Literature Review

Publication date: December 2017 Source:Chinese Medical Sciences Journal, Volume 32, Issue 4 Author(s): Minmin Cao, Cuiping Huang, Yafen Wang, Demei Ma Extrarenal Wilms' Tumors (ERWTs) are rare. There have been only 25 cases of ERWT arising from the female genital system reported in the literature. In this paper, we report a 60-year-old woman with a complaint of vaginal bleeding and a polypoid mass in the uterine cavity by sonography that was demonstrated as ERWT by pathology after resection. The pathological characteristics, histological origination, diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of ERWT in female reproductive system are discussed in this paper in the purpose of improving the diagnosis and therapy of this rare tumor.
Source: Chinese Medical Sciences Journal - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research