OBJECTIVE: The aim was to report a multicentric study with a longer follow-up to evaluate the laparoscopic radical nephrectomy in children with renal cancer.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: This was a retrospective multicentric study, from October 2005 to January 2012, of children who underwent a laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for small renal malignant tumors.
RESULTS: Seventeen children were included in this study. Sixteen underwent chemotherapy before surgery according the SIOP (Société Internationale d'Oncologie Pédiatrique) protocol and one was treated by surgery only for a carcinoma. All except one could be treated by laparoscopy; the biggest tumoral size was 8 cm. The median hospital stay was 3 days (2-10). The pathologic examination showed 15 Wilms' tumors, one clear cell sarcoma and one TFE3 renal cell carcinoma. With a median follow-up of 42 months (range 12 and 77 months) after laparoscopic radical nephrectomy, 15 children had no oncological complications (port site or local recurrence, pulmonary metastasis) and one had a local recurrence without intraoperative tumoral rupture. The child with TFE3 renal cell carcinoma died 4 years after surgery from brain and lung metastases without local recurrence. No small bowel obstruction occurred.
CONCLUSIONS: Radical nephrectomy in children for Wilms' tumor or other renal cancer can be safely performed laparoscopically and our indications can be summarized, for trained laparoscopic surgeons, by small tumors under about 8 cm diameter, especially without crossing the lateral edge of the vertebra on the CT scan at the time of surgery.
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Varlet F, Petit T, Leclair MD, Lardy H, Geiss S, Becmeur F, Ravasse P, Rod J, de Lambert G, Braik K, Lardellier-Reynaud F, Lopez M. Are you the author?
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hopital Nord, Saint-Etienne, France; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Caen, France; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hopital Mere enfant, Nantes, France; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hopital Clocheville, Tours Cedex, France; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Centre Hospitalier, Centre de la mere et de l'enfant Le Parc, Colmar, France; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hopital Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France.
Reference: J Pediatr Urol. 2013 Nov 25. pii: S1477-5131(13)00319-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2013.11.005
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24332932
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