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* Triphasic pattern consisting of tubules, solid sheets of small round cells, and stroma
* Triphasic pattern consisting of tubules, solid sheets of small round cells, and stroma
* Small round blue cells, nuclear pleomorphism, and irregular nuclear membrane
* Small round blue cells, nuclear pleomorphism, and irregular nuclear membrane
 
* Clustered tubular structures Tubular with central clear spaces surrounded by a rim of intensely eosinophilic cytoplasm.
clustered glomerulus
central (clear/white) space surrounded by a rim of intensely eosinophilic cytoplasm elongated and palisaded
 
 
 
 
 


* WT1 and WT2 genes on chromosome 11
* WT1 and WT2 genes on chromosome 11

Revision as of 14:30, 6 November 2015

  • 3-4 yo patients
  • Asymptomatic abdominal mass
  • May have abdominal pain, fever, nausea/vomiting, hematuria, and hypertension
  • Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and WAGR syndrome
  • Unilateral, smooth, firm, nontender, flank mass
  • Does not cross the midline


  • Elevated serum creatinine and BUN
  • Reduced glomerular filtration rate
  • Abnormal liver function tests
  • Erythrocytosis, hypercalcemia, and acquired Von Willebrand disease


  • Large heterogeneous solid mass on U/S
  • Displace adjacent structures
  • Lung and lymph nodes metastasis
  • Renal vein thrombosis


  • Triphasic pattern consisting of tubules, solid sheets of small round cells, and stroma
  • Small round blue cells, nuclear pleomorphism, and irregular nuclear membrane
  • Clustered tubular structures Tubular with central clear spaces surrounded by a rim of intensely eosinophilic cytoplasm.
  • WT1 and WT2 genes on chromosome 11
  • WTX gene on chromosome X




Nonmalignant causes

anaplastic sarcoma clear cell sarcoma mesoblastic nephroma metanephric stromal tumor nephroblastomatosis / nephrogenic rests neuroblastoma oncocytoid carcinoma after neuroblastoma ossifying tumor renal cell carcinoma rhabdoid tumor translocation carcinoma (children) Wilms tumor of children