Samer Mohamed Alfarouk <br/><br/>
Comparative study on the effect of preoperative chemotherapy on the down staging and surgical outcome in pediatric wilm's tumor /  
 دراسة مقارنة من الناحية الجراحية على الاطفال المصابين بورم ولمز بالعلاج الكميائى وبدونة على خفض مراحل الورم وسهولة استئصاله والمضاعفات الجراحية 
Samer Mohamed Alfarouk ; Supervised Khaled Ismaiel Zohdy , Sherif Nabhan Khadah , Mohamed Meshref 
 - Cairo :   Samer Mohamed Alfarouk ,   2009 
 - 94P. :   facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery 
<br/><br/> Wilm's tumor is the most common malignant renal tumor in children represents 6% of childhood cancers . WT presented by abdominal mass loss of weight anemia, hypertension . Aim of the work is to compare the effect of preoperative chemotherapy versus the standard up front surgical resection . Results of this study revealed that in group I : Resectability of the tumor in 19 child versus one child is highly significant . Down staging in group I is highly significant 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Nephroblastoma  Pediatric cancer  Wilm's tumer