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B H Broecker

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PubMed1984

Management of unresectable Wilms tumor.

Wilms tumor has become a model of highly curable cancer. With the addition and refinement of chemotherapy protocols, survival rates have risen from 20 per cent three decades ago to 80 per cent or greater in the past decade. Surgery remains an integral part of the management of Wilms tumor both as a diagnostic tool and for removal of tumor bulk. Few primary tumors cannot be surgically removed during the initial phase of therapy. However, bilateral Wilms tumor and large unilateral tumors may occasionally be initially unresectable without prohibitive loss of renal or nonrenal organ function. The National Wilms Tumor Study group has no protocol for management of these tumors but does offer guidelines unsupported by large numbers of patients. Two cases are presented in which the tumors were initially deemed surgically unresectable. Initial management with chemotherapy (both cases) and radiotherapy (1 case) followed by surgical removal of tumor left both patients free of gross tumor, with relapse-free survivals of two and one-half years and six years thus far. Based on our experience and that found in the literature, we believe that preoperative chemotherapy is indicated for children suspected of having Wilms tumors judged surgically unresectable.

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PubMed1984

Renal tubular acidosis type 4 in neonatal unilateral kidney diseases.

Three neonates, two with unilateral renal vein thrombosis and one with unilateral dysplastic kidney, developed type 4 renal tubular acidosis, manifested by nonazotemic hyperkalemic metabolic acidosis with alkaline urine pH and reduced potassium excretion. Normal plasma concentrations of sodium, aldosterone, and renin activity, together with normal renal fractional excretion of sodium, supported the diagnosis of renal tubular acidosis type 4, subtype 5. Arginine HCl loading studies showed that despite their ability to bring the urine pH to less than 5.8, net acid excretion was inadequate relative to the corresponding plasma bicarbonate concentration. Treatment with oral bicarbonate resulted in sustained normalization of blood acid-base status and accelerated linear growth in the first two infants, in whom spontaneous recovery occurred by ages 8 and 15 months, respectively. At that time, the affected kidneys were extremely small with distorted collecting systems; the contralateral kidneys showed compensatory hypertrophy. In the third infant, persistent acidosis and growth failure resulted from medical noncompliance; the removal of the dysplastic kidney at 7 months of age was followed by the return to normal blood acid-base status and normalized tubular hydrogen and potassium excretion. We conclude that neonatal unilateral kidney disease can result in renal tubular subtype 5. Spontaneous recovery can be expected, presumably because of " autonephrectomy " of the affected kidney plus the compensatory hypertrophy of the contralateral kidney.

Acidosis, Renal Tubular↗
PubMed1981

Epithelial lesions of bladder mucosa following ureteral reimplantation.

We report on 3 children who underwent ureteral reimplantation. Postoperatively, each patient had persistent, irritative, lower tract symptoms and continuous or recurring urinary infections, with or without gross hematuria. Because of these symptoms cystoscopy was done in 2 children and the third child under went repeat ureteral reimplantation because of persistent vesicoureteral reflux. At operation single or multiple hyperplastic, sessile lesions of the urothelium, not evident at the time of initial ureteral reimplantation, were discovered in each child. Histologically, these lesions showed proliferative and metaplastic glandular epithelial changes. Treatment consisted of transurethral fulguration and long-term antimicrobial medication plus partial cystectomy and topical intravesical chemotherapy for recurrent lesions in 1 child. The etiology of these epithelial lesions, although uncertain, is believed to be a response to long-standing inflammation.

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PubMed1981

Cancer of the bladder in spinal cord injury patients.

Since 1963, 10 cases of bladder carcinoma have been detected in 1,052 new admissions to our center. A high percentage of these patients had squamous cell carcinoma and/or squamous elements. This relatively high incidence stimulated a prospective study of 81 spinal cord injury patients either maintained on intraurethral catheter drainage for 10 years or an external appliance for 15 years. There were changes of squamous metaplasia in 19 per cent of the cases but no cancer was detected. It remains undetermined if squamous metaplasia is a pre-malignant lesion. However, the incidence of squamous metaplasia and squamous cell carcinoma in paraplegics with chronically infected bladders is not uncommon. Any spinal cord injury patient with hematuria needs a complete bladder evaluation and any long-term paraplegic with chronic infection should undergo cystoscopy and Papanicolaou smears as part of the yearly checkup.

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PubMed1980

A clinical experience with dantrolene sodium for external urinary sphincter hypertonicity in spinal cord injured patients.

Significant bladder residual urine is secondary to pelvic floor skeletal muscle hypertonicity in some spinal cord injury patients with suprasacral or mixed lesions. Fifteen patients with residual urine volumes greater than 150 cc were treated with dantrolene sodium because of its ability to decrease skeletal muscle contractibility. All of the patients had urethral closure pressures greater than 100 cm. water. Of the 15 patients 8 benefited from dantrolene sodium therapy and were maintained on external condom urinary drainage. Five of these 8 patients required up to 600 mg. dantrolene sodium daily to affect this result. The residual urine volume decreased to less than 100 cc and the post-therapy decrease in urethral pressure averaged 77 cm. water (49 per cent). The patients in the failure group (residual urine greater than 150 cc) had an average decrease in urethral pressure of 21 cm. water (16 per cent). Detrusor hyporeflexia possibly contributed to the failure rate. In summary, dantrolene sodium seems to be beneficial in some patients with external urinary sphincter hypertonicity. However, it will not supplant external sphincterotomy in the more complete male spinal cord injury patient in whom reflex incontinence is of minimal concern. Dantrolene sodium could be an ideal treatment of patients with incomplete neurologic lesions in whom continence might be preserved. The drug will have to be effective at low doses to obviate the major side effect of over-all muscle weakness.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Simplified coagulum pyelolithotomy using cryoprecipitate.

Coagulum pyelolithotomy has been beneficial in removing calyceal calculi when the diameter of the infundibulum and pelvis is adequate. By utilizing a simple, precise ratio of cryoprecipitate, thrombin, and calcium chloride (25:4:1), an effective coagulum was obtained in 7 consecutive cases with complete stone removal in 5.

Calcium Chloride↗