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P G Baroncelli

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[Wilms' tumor. Our clinical experience].

The survival of children with Wilms' tumour is evaluated in 11 males and 12 females treated between 1967 and 1975 in the light of the clinical stage, age at diagnosis, and sex. The subjects were aged from 4 months to 6 years. Six were in stage I, 4 in stage II, 4 in stage III, 7 in stage IV, and 2 in stage V. Survival in stage I was 100% at 36 months and gradually decreased with the stage. Patients aged less than 2 years presented a survival of 50% two years after diagnosis, compared to 24% in those over 2 years old. Sex appears to be irrelevant to prognosis.

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[Lymphoscintiscanning with colloidal Tc 99m in pediatrics].

Lymphatic scintigraphy has proved a useful addition to radiological lymphography in oncological diagnosis in paediatrics. In cases studied comparatively with the two techniques, scintigraphy has been found to offer good resolution capacity also. The radioisotope method demonstrated its greatest value as a control examination for judging results obtained after surgery or radiation. In doubtful cases it was possibile to repeat the examination after a short time in order to evaluate the development of the lymph node lesion. The technique is easy to carry out in paediatric age: 0.5 ml of colloidal Tc with specific activity from 0.3 to 0.5 mCix are injected subcutaneously, mixed with 75 U of hyaluronidase between the Ist and IInd interdigital space to highlight iliac and para-aortic lymph nodes. The useof 99mTc is of special interest because it has made irradiation of these small patients negligible.

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