Open AccessUse of pretherapy core biopsy in the diagnosis of pediatric renal tumors
Author(s) -
Jujju Jacob Kurian,
Kenneth R L. gpiur,
Susan Jehangir
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of indian association of pediatric surgeons
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1998-3891
pISSN - 0971-9261
DOI - 10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_245_16
Subject(s) - medicine , biopsy , anaplasia , nephrectomy , renal biopsy , radiology , wilms' tumor , surgery , kidney , pathology
Pretreatment core biopsy of pediatric renal tumors has been advocated by United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group to circumvent the disadvantage of International Society of Paediatric Oncology protocol, where neoadjuvant chemotherapy initiated without histopathological confirmation can result in over- or under-treatment.